What is Fedicabot?
Direct Answer: Fedicabot is a social media publishing helper bot operated by Fedica, reading user-specified pages and RSS feeds.
The Fedicabot is a web crawler used by Fedica to assist users with social media publishing. It reads RSS feeds defined by website owners to download content and help users publish to social media. Additionally, it reads open graph information to render open graph cards when sharing links on social media.
User-Agent Identification
The following user-agent strings identify Fedicabot in your live traffic data:
FedicabotFedicaApp
robots.txt Rules for Fedicabot
Respects robots.txt: No
Robots.txt has limited effect on user-initiated bots
Fedicabot is triggered by user actions within Fedica's products. While Fedica states it respects robots.txt, the bot operates differently from autonomous crawlers — it fetches specific URLs on demand rather than systematically spidering your site. Server-log monitoring is the only reliable way to verify what actually happens.
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Crawl Behavior
Frequency:On-Demand
Request Pattern:User-Specified Pages And RSS Feeds
Official Documentation Quotes
"The Fedicabot, is a web crawler used by Fedica to help users with their social media publishing."
Crawl Activity Index
Relative crawl activity for Fedicabot over the past 28 days. Higher values indicate increased crawling intensity compared to the period baseline.
View recent activity data (last 7 days)
| Date | Activity Index |
|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2026 | 88.0 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | 82.7 |
| Mar 28, 2026 | 83.1 |
| Mar 29, 2026 | 81.8 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | 87.3 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 90.2 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | 88.9 |
Source: Cloudflare Radar
Why track Fedicabot traffic?
Ensure your link previews render correctly. Fedicabot fetches your pages to generate link preview cards on Fedica. If it can't access your meta tags, your shared links display broken or generic previews.
Monitor social sharing activity. Fedicabot requests correlate with how often your URLs are being shared on Fedica, even before engagement metrics are available.
Log Verification
To verify Fedicabot traffic in your live traffic data:
- Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
- Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by Fedica)
- Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
- Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available
Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.
Undocumented Information
The following information is not officially documented for Fedicabot:
- crawl frequency details
- IP verification
- JavaScript rendering details
Verify your link previews work — and track social bot access
- Confirm Fedicabot can access your Open Graph meta tags
- Track which URLs are being shared on Fedica
- Detect failed fetches causing broken preview cards
Official Documentation
View Official Fedicabot Documentation →
Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.