Feedfetcher
Developer ToolsVerify Feedfetcher IP Address
Verify if an IP address truly belongs to Google, using official verification methods. Enter both IP address and User-Agent from your logs for the most accurate bot verification.
Feedfetcher is Google’s crawler responsible for retrieving RSS and Atom feeds used in Google News, Google Reader (historically), and other syndication-based services. It fetches feed URLs rather than full webpages. The bot does not index content for Google Search and does not follow links within feeds; its role is purely to collect updates for subscribed users or Google systems that aggregate feed content. Most publishers allow it to ensure timely distribution of updates. Crawl activity is periodic and lightweight, triggered when feed subscribers or internal services request refreshes. It ignores the global user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies Feedfetcher using Google’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine Feedfetcher traffic is identified.
User Agent Examples
Contains: FeedFetcher-Google (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html)Robots.txt Configuration for Feedfetcher
No Robots.txt Identifier
Feedfetcher does not have a unique robots.txt User-Agent identifier, which means this bot cannot be specifically targeted in your robots.txt file.
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