OpenRSS
What is OpenRSS?
About
OpenRSS is a nonprofit RSS feed service bot that crawls websites to generate and provide free RSS feeds, allowing users to follow website updates in a reader app. You can see how often OpenRSS 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
Detail
Operated By | OpenRSS |
Last Updated | 10 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Robots.txt
Should I Block OpenRSS?
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 OpenRSS?
You can block OpenRSS 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.
User Agent String | OpenRSS/202507.20.1254 (https://openrss.org/guides/why-is-open-rss-scraping-my-website) |
# robots.txt
# This should block OpenRSS
User-agent: OpenRSS
Disallow: /