Podnado crawler

You are probably here because you found this in your access log:

Podnado/1.0 Podcast Indexer (feed-id=12; +https://bot.podnado.com/)

What it does

Podnado indexes podcasts. It fetches your RSS feed and, for episodes it has not seen, the audio enclosure. That is all it requests — no HTML pages, no images, no stylesheets, no scraping of your website.

How often

Per feed, on that feed's own schedule, defaulting to once an hour and slower for feeds that publish rarely. Conditional requests are used (If-None-Match / If-Modified-Since), so an unchanged feed costs you a 304 and no body. Each episode's audio is fetched once; the only reason we would request it again is if our own copy were lost.

It is a bot, not a listener

The User-Agent matches the pattern ^Podnado/\d+\.\d+, registered in the OPAWG user-agents list. If your host uses that list — most do — these downloads are already excluded from your listener numbers under the IAB Podcast Measurement Technical Guidelines. We deliberately do not send a browser User-Agent, because counting an indexer as a person inflates your stats.

The feed-id

feed-id identifies which of your feeds the request was for. Quote it when you get in touch and we can find the exact subscription.

Making it stop

Either works, and neither needs a reply from us:

• Disallow it in your robots.txt:

  User-agent: Podnado
  Disallow: /

• Or write to the address below with your feed URL, and the feed is removed.

If we are simply hitting you too hard, say so and the interval is raised for your feed specifically. That is a smaller change than blocking us and we would rather do it.

Contact

webmaster@podnado.com. Include the feed-id and your feed URL.