Buttondown is an automated RSS feed crawler that fetches content from blogs and websites to convert them into newsletter content, allowing users to turn their RSS feeds into automated mailing lists.

At a glance

Operator: Buttondown
Type: Feed Reader

How Centinel checks it

User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.

Buttondown publishes nothing Centinel can check a source against, so a match reports the name and leaves the source unconfirmed. The match tokens, verification domains, and address feeds are not published here.

Allowing or blocking it

The crawler object in the /validate response sets access_allowed to true only for a verified source that your tenant allowlists. A policy rule can allow or block this crawler by its category, Feed Reader.

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