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InformedBot

For publishers and site owners. How Informed uses your work, your choices and how to have a story removed are on For publishers.

InformedBot is the software that reads news for the Informed app. It identifies itself with this User-Agent:

InformedBot/0.2 (+https://readinformed.com/bot)

What it fetches

  • The RSS and Atom feeds that publishers make available.
  • The full text of a small number of articles that a story is written from, so every point in the story can be checked against, and linked to, the original reporting.
  • The article’s preview image, which the app shows with a credit to the publisher.

Every story in Informed links readers to the original articles it was written from.

Opting out

InformedBot honours robots.txt for feeds and article pages, before every request and redirect. To stop it reading your site, add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: InformedBot
Disallow: /

To choose summaries only, or no use at all, by email, see For publishers.

Contact

Questions or problems: support@synapselabs.com.au.