Why might I see both `Fedicabot` and `FedicaApp`?

Those are the two user-agent values in the corresponding bot record. Log filters should account for both if you want a complete view of Fedica traffic.

What page data does Fedicabot use for a shared link?

Fedica documents reading Open Graph information to render a social card. The title, description, image, and URL returned by the target page determine what it can read.

Is Fedicabot known to follow robots.txt?

The source record leaves compliance unknown. Publish rules for the recorded identities if needed, but verify their effect from access logs.

Does a Fedicabot request have AI search or training value?

No such use is documented. It supports Fedica's social publishing and RSS features, not an AI search index or model-training pipeline.

Fedicabot & AI Search: What to Know

What is Fedicabot?

Fedicabot fetches content for people using Fedica's social publishing tools. Fedica says the bot does not crawl whole websites. For a web page, it reads the specific URL supplied by a user so Fedica can render an Open Graph card for a social post.

The bot also retrieves RSS feeds that a website owner has configured. That feed workflow lets a Fedica user find and publish items from the feed, while the page workflow is limited to the link being prepared for sharing. The recorded HTTP identities are Fedicabot and FedicaApp.

A visit is therefore associated with a publishing action or a feed chosen by a user, not an attempt to map every reachable page. If the fetched title, image, or description is wrong, inspect the Open Graph fields returned at that exact URL and check whether the media files are publicly accessible.

Fedicabot is not an AI search or training crawler. It can affect how a link appears in a social post created through Fedica, but the available sources do not connect the fetch to AI citations, answer grounding, or a model-training corpus.

Indirectly relevant

Is Fedicabot relevant for AI search?

Indirectly. Fedicabot has no AI product of its own, but its output can end up in the systems that AI answers draw on.

Fedicabot fetches pages to build link-preview cards. It does not feed an AI index, but it reads the same Open Graph and structured metadata that AI systems parse to understand your pages, so clean preview metadata doubles as AI-friendly metadata.

How to handle Fedicabot

Allow these requests when staff use Fedica to publish links or when you have given Fedica an RSS feed. Blocking the bot can prevent Fedica from reading that feed or building the expected link card. If nobody authorized the activity, revoke the feed or publishing setup as well as controlling network access.

A valid robots group can name both recorded HTTP identities:

User-agent: Fedicabot
User-agent: FedicaApp
Disallow: /

The record does not confirm robots.txt compliance. Treat this stanza as a stated preference, then check logs for another fetch of a disallowed URL. Use an edge rule if the block must be enforced.

Examples

A communications manager pastes one report URL into Fedica. Fedicabot requests that page, reads its Open Graph title and image, and uses them for the draft post's card.
A newsroom connects its own RSS feed to Fedica. `FedicaApp` revisits the configured feed for new entries but does not use that feed as permission to crawl the rest of the domain.

Frequently asked questions about Fedicabot

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Fedica says no. The page workflow reads the URL specified by the user, while the feed workflow reads RSS feeds selected by website owners.

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What is Fedicabot?

Is Fedicabot relevant for AI search?

How to handle Fedicabot

Examples

Frequently asked questions about Fedicabot

Does Fedicabot crawl an entire website after a link is submitted?

Why might I see both `Fedicabot` and `FedicaApp`?

What page data does Fedicabot use for a shared link?

Is Fedicabot known to follow robots.txt?

Does a Fedicabot request have AI search or training value?

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