ForetokenBot.
The crawler behind Foretoken, an AI news app from Vaka Studio. It checks public feeds for new AI announcements so the app can point readers to the original source.
User agent: ForetokenBot/<version> (+https://vakastudio.com/foretoken/bot)
Feeds and pages that publishers offer for automated reading: RSS and Atom feeds, release notes, public APIs and status pages. It reads the title, link, date and a short summary of each new item.
It never republishes your articles, never copies headlines or opening lines, never logs in and never gets around paywalls, bot checks or rate limits.
Most feeds are checked every 2 minutes, slower ones up to once an hour, with at most two requests at a time per site. It honors Crawl-delay and sends If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since, so an unchanged feed costs you a 304 and no body.
ForetokenBot follows robots.txt (RFC 9309) for the product token ForetokenBot, and re-reads it every 24 hours. Any 401, 403 or 429 response stops it from reading that feed until a person reviews it.
Block or limit it.
Add this to your robots.txt and ForetokenBot stops within 24 hours:
User-agent: ForetokenBot Disallow: /
Requests come from 204.168.251.178 (Hetzner, Helsinki). Prefer another feed, a slower rate, or want us to stop? Email [email protected] and we’ll act on it within two working days.