AutoFeeds Fetching Behaviour

[!INFO] This page details technical information intended for feed operators who wish to understand how AutoFeeds fetches content. It is not relevant to usual end-user usage of the bot.

AutoFeeds is a bot on the chat platform Stoat, which fetches syndication feeds and posts new items as specified by users.

When fetching content, the bot identifies itself with the user-agent AutoFeeds/1.0.

By default, AutoFeeds checks feeds for new content every 20 minutes. However, it honours standard HTTP cache headers, as well as the RSS-specific ttl, skipHours, and skipDays when present. It does not attempt to fetch from JSON Feed files marked as ‘expired’.

If you’re here because you are finding AutoFeeds to be ill-mannered, please contact me so we can resolve the problem.