The Feedigy Bot
If you found Feedigy/1.0 in your server logs, this page explains what it was doing — and how to stop it if you'd rather we didn't.
Last updated: August 29, 2026
What Feedigy is
Feedigy turns websites into RSS feeds. People use it to follow sites they care about in a feed reader, and to republish their own content to their own channels.
Everything our bot fetches, it fetches because one of our users asked it to — they added a specific URL to their account. We do not crawl the web looking for content, and we do not build a search index.
How to identify us
Every request we make sends this User-Agent:
Feedigy/1.0 (+https://feedigy.com/bot)We do not disguise ourselves as a web browser, and we do not rotate through different identities. If a request claims to be Chrome or Firefox, it isn’t us.
What we fetch
| What | Why | How often |
|---|---|---|
Feed URLs (/feed, /rss.xml, and similar) | The feed a user subscribed to | On a schedule, typically hourly or slower |
| A page’s HTML | To find a feed link, a title, or a preview image when a user adds a URL | Once, when they add it |
| An article page | To recover the full text when a feed only publishes an excerpt | Once per article |
A few things we deliberately don’t do:
- We don’t crawl. We fetch the URLs our users gave us, not every link we find on them.
- We don’t try to get around anti-bot measures, CAPTCHAs, or login walls. If a page blocks us, we report that to the user and stop.
- We don’t fetch anything behind a paywall or a login.
Rate limits
We fetch at most one page per site every ten seconds, across all of our users combined —
so no number of Feedigy accounts pointed at your site can increase the load. If your
robots.txt sets a Crawl-delay, we use that instead when it is slower.
How to block us
Add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: Feedigy
Disallow: /We read robots.txt before fetching and re-check it regularly, so an existing feed will
stop working within a day of you adding that rule. You can also disallow specific paths
rather than the whole site.
To block us from part of your site while still offering a feed, disallow the paths and leave your feed URL allowed — that’s usually the outcome everyone wants.
If robots.txt isn’t enough
Some of our users create feeds from sites they own or have permission to publish from, and
can tell us so. In those cases a feed may continue after a robots.txt change. We keep a
record of every such override.
If you don’t want Feedigy fetching your site at all, contact us with your domain and we’ll block it at our end, regardless of what any user has claimed. We’d rather hear from you than have you block our IPs.
Something looks wrong?
If our bot is requesting more than the rates above, requesting pages it shouldn’t, or identifying itself differently than described here, that’s a bug or it isn’t us — either way, please tell us and include the log lines. We’ll act on it.