The ecoresearch/feed agent is the feed retrieval component of the crawler run by the ECOresearch Network, a research network for environmental online communication hosted by the Department of New Media Technology at MODUL University Vienna. It collects news media articles and syndication feeds that are analysed by the webLyzard media monitoring and web intelligence platform and presented in public research showcases such as the Media Watch on Climate Change. The network states that its data collection respects the robots.txt settings of the sites it visits, but it publishes no IP ranges, no reverse DNS hostnames, and no separate documentation page for this user agent.

At a glance

Operator: ECOresearch Network
Type: Research

How Centinel checks it

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

ECOresearch Feed Crawler 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, Research.

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