Sottopop-user-rss
recommended: observeSottopop-user-rss is a feed fetcher operated by UpContent that retrieves RSS content to support UpContent content discovery and curation features.
What it does
Sottopop-user-rss shows up within seconds of someone sharing one of your URLs, grabs the title, description, and preview image, and leaves. Expect one hit per share, no link following, and volume that tracks how much your content circulates. A widely shared link can mean thousands of fetches in an hour.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Sottopop-user-rss
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Sottopop-user-rss:
Allow full access
User-agent: Sottopop-user-rss
Allow: /
Block entirely
User-agent: Sottopop-user-rss
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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