You are probably here because you found this in your access log:
Podnado/1.0 Podcast Indexer (feed-id=12; +https://bot.podnado.com/)
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.
Per feed, on that feed's own schedule. We follow industry-standard practices and
generally will not hit a feed more than once an hour, unless we are requesting on
behalf of an end-user request. Where your feed states an interval in
<ttl> or in a Cache-Control: max-age header, we use
that instead. Feeds in our own index are checked every 4 to 12 hours. A feed that is
in our own index and is also followed can be checked on both schedules. Apart from
requests made on behalf of an end user, no feed is checked more often than every
10 minutes or less often than once a day, and
never more often than your Crawl-delay allows. Whenever your feed
gives us an ETag or Last-Modified, our next check is a
conditional request (If-None-Match / If-Modified-Since),
so an unchanged feed costs you a 304 and no body. We fetch an episode's audio once
and keep our copy; we only request it again if that copy has been lost or has
expired.
The User-Agent matches the pattern ^Podnado/\d+\.\d+. We
deliberately do not send a browser User-Agent, because counting an indexer as a
person inflates your stats.
We are listed in the OPAWG user-agents list and in the separate podcast-rss-useragents list that some hosts consult for feed requests, both as of 8 September 2026, so a host that consults either can filter us out of your download numbers automatically. What that does not guarantee: hosts refresh those lists on their own schedule and some do not use them at all. If our fetches are still showing up as listens, the pattern above is what to filter on — or write to us and we will help. We would rather tell you the limits than let you assume a protection you do not have.
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.
None of these needs a reply from us:
robots.txt, at the host serving your feed
or the host serving your audio, or both:
User-agent: Podnado Disallow: /We re-read it at least hourly, so it takes effect within the hour. This stops us for every feed, including one someone has asked us to follow.
Crawl-delay in your
robots.txt, which we honour. For a feed someone has asked us to
follow, a longer <ttl> in the feed, or a
Cache-Control: max-age header on it, also makes us check less
often, up to once a day.If your feed and your audio are served by different hosts — which is normal — we check both independently, so a rule on either one stops that part.
If one of these is not working for you, write to the address below and quote
the feed-id.
Podnado is made by the team behind YourPods. Podcasters can find out how YourPods handles their show, and how to reach us, at https://yourpods.app/podcasters/
webmaster@podnado.com. Include the feed-id and your feed URL.