Feedwind

What is Feedwind?

About

Feedwind is Mikle's RSS feed aggregation bot that accesses feed sources every 5 minutes to 5 hours (depending on user plan) to keep feed widgets updated with the latest content from subscribed websites and blogs. You can see how often Feedwind visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher

Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By	Mikle
Last Updated	5 hours ago

Insights

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0% of top websites are blocking Feedwind

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Country of Origin

Unknown

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Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Feedwind?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block Feedwind?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Feedwind or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt
# This should block Feedwind

User-agent: Feedwind
Disallow: /