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TribbBot

TribbBot is the feed fetcher for Tribb, an RSS reader. It requests RSS/Atom/JSON feeds (and occasionally the article pages they link to) on behalf of individual subscribers who explicitly added your feed to their reader. It does not crawl, index, train models on, or republish your content.

Identity

User-Agent: TribbBot/0.1 (+https://tribb.app/about/bot)

Verification: Web Bot Auth — every request is signed with Ed25519 per RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures). Verify against our key directory:

https://tribb.app/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory

Key ID: mc-PVYeyDXEeJJ8R78pyczyPvleSVPftezCnTGWUep8

Because identity is cryptographic, it does not depend on source IP addresses. A request claiming to be TribbBot without a valid signature is not us.

How it behaves

Conditional requests on every poll: we store and replay both ETag (If-None-Match) and Last-Modified (If-Modified-Since), so unchanged feeds cost you a 304 and almost no bandwidth.
Each unique feed is fetched once for all subscribers, hourly by default, with adaptive backoff for quiet feeds.
429 and Retry-After are respected. Repeated failures put a feed to sleep rather than hammering it.
Article pages are fetched at most once per item, only to render a readable view privately to the subscriber who chose your feed.
No JavaScript execution, no ad requests, no tracking pixels.

Controlling TribbBot

If you run Cloudflare, TribbBot uses Web Bot Auth so you can manage it with verified-bot rules. To limit or stop fetching entirely, email us with the feed URL and we will exclude it promptly. Publishing a feed is treated as consent to polite polling — removing the feed or returning 410 Gone unsubscribes everyone cleanly.

Contact

Operator: itsvrsb@gmail.com · We respond to all webmaster requests.

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