Overcast

What is Overcast?

About

Overcast bot fetches RSS feeds and audio metadata from podcast hosting servers to keep the podcast directory and episodes updated for the award-winning iOS podcast player. You can see how often Overcast 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 Overcast Radio
Last Updated 17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Overcast
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Country of Origin

United States
Overcast normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Arts and Entertainment
Books and Literature
Science
Computers and Electronics
Health
How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Overcast?

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 Overcast?

You can block Overcast 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.

How Do I Block All Fetchers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new fetchers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt
User Agent String Overcast/1.0 Podcast Sync (138 subscribers; feed-id=874629; +http://overcast.fm/) 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Overcast # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/overcast
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

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