Google Feed Fetcher
recommended: allow
Operated by Google
social media
Google FeedFetcher is the RSS reader for Google.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
google.com/feedfetcher
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Google Feed Fetcher:
Allow full access
User-agent: google.com/feedfetcher
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: google.com/feedfetcher
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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