RSSAPI

What is RSSAPI?

About

RSSAPI is a service that periodically monitors RSS, ATOM, and JSON feeds for customers, parsing and normalizing content, then delivering updates via webhooks in near real-time for feed subscription applications. You can see how often RSSAPI 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 RSS API (by Tibush GmbH)
Last Updated 5 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

Germany
RSSAPI normally visits from Germany

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block RSSAPI?

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 RSSAPI?

⚠️ 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 RSSAPI 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 RSSAPI/2.0 (+https://rssapi.net/) 
# robots.txt
# This should block RSSAPI

User-agent: RSSAPI
Disallow: /

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