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What is MonitoRSS?

Direct Answer: MonitoRSS is a bot operated by MonitoRSS that polls RSS feeds of Cloudflare-protected sites to deliver news articles to Discord servers.

Operator: MonitoRSS Type: Other Bot Purpose: RSS feed polling and news article delivery to Discord servers

MonitoRSS is an open-source bot that polls RSS feeds of Cloudflare-protected sites to deliver news articles to Discord servers. The bot adds feeds to a schedule to be polled at a regular interval of 2-10 minutes, chosen by paid users. The bot is also available for self-hosting under the MIT license.

User-Agent Identification

The following user-agent strings identify MonitoRSS in your live traffic data:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0 MonitoRSS/1.0

robots.txt Rules for MonitoRSS

Respects robots.txt: Yes

Robots.txt has limited effect on user-initiated bots

MonitoRSS is triggered by user actions within MonitoRSS's products. While MonitoRSS 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:Every 2-10 Minutes

Request Pattern:Polling RSS Feeds Of Cloudflare-Protected Sites

Official Documentation Quotes

"Auto-deliver news from YouTube, Reddit, and more to your Discord server."

"7+ years uptime, 500M+ articles delivered. Your feeds won't break."

Crawl Activity Index

Relative crawl activity for MonitoRSS 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 28, 2026 15.0
Mar 29, 2026 22.3
Mar 30, 2026 18.8
Mar 31, 2026 26.2
Apr 1, 2026 16.7
Apr 2, 2026 30.6
Apr 3, 2026 28.4

Source: Cloudflare Radar

Why track MonitoRSS traffic?

Identify and classify unknown crawler activity. MonitoRSS may appear in your live traffic data with varying frequency. Tracking its behavior helps you decide whether to allow, throttle, or block it based on actual data.

Protect your crawl budget. Every bot request consumes server resources. Understanding what MonitoRSS crawls helps you prioritize the crawlers that matter.

Log Verification

To verify MonitoRSS traffic in your live traffic data:

  1. Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
  2. Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by MonitoRSS)
  3. Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
  4. 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 MonitoRSS:

  • ai-training-capable
  • verified-ips
  • high-volume
  • deprecated
  • crawl delay

Official Documentation

View Official MonitoRSS Documentation →

Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.