Tons of new feed fetcher bots are classified as browsers
Question: How does or should WLE classify feed fetchers?
After the Google Reader shutdown a whole lot of feed reader bots have popped up that WLE doesn't recognize yet. Google Feedfetcher itself is classified as a spider, but I'm seeing a ton of new RSS bots that appear under "Browsers". Here are the most active ones from my server logs:
Bloglovin/1.0 (http://www.bloglovin.com; x subscribers)
Superfeedr bot/2.0 http://superfeedr.com - (here come various quips)
repparser/0.1 (python) (no idea what this one is!)
Zemanta Aggregator/0.8 +http://www.zemanta.com
Reeder/1.5.7 CFNetwork/609.1.4 Darwin/13.0.0
There are tons more. The new AOL Reader has just entered the fray, for example, so this zoo is only going to get bigger for a while.
There are also hits from standalone feed readers like FeedDemon and RSSOwl. All of those had been historically classified as browsers, though, so I guess they can stay that way.
After the Google Reader shutdown a whole lot of feed reader bots have popped up that WLE doesn't recognize yet. Google Feedfetcher itself is classified as a spider, but I'm seeing a ton of new RSS bots that appear under "Browsers". Here are the most active ones from my server logs:
Bloglovin/1.0 (http://www.bloglovin.com; x subscribers)
Superfeedr bot/2.0 http://superfeedr.com - (here come various quips)
repparser/0.1 (python) (no idea what this one is!)
Zemanta Aggregator/0.8 +http://www.zemanta.com
Reeder/1.5.7 CFNetwork/609.1.4 Darwin/13.0.0
There are tons more. The new AOL Reader has just entered the fray, for example, so this zoo is only going to get bigger for a while.
There are also hits from standalone feed readers like FeedDemon and RSSOwl. All of those had been historically classified as browsers, though, so I guess they can stay that way.
If it is possible, could you send a recent log from your site to us at support@weblogexpert.com? We'll use it to check new bots to be added in the next version.