# Whitelist FeedOtter on CloudFlare
FeedOtter is a tool that automates the creation of emails based on blog and website content. During the course of its automation it will crawl your public content pages to find featured images and article metadata.
If you use CloudFlare to protect your website we recommend taking the following steps to ensure FeedOtter can reliably access your website.
#### Steps to Add the FeedOtter's IP Address to Cloudflare's Whitelist
1. Log in to your [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/login).
2. Go to Security > WAF > Tools.
3. Click IP Access Rules.
4. In the Value field, enter the IP address: ***104.236.230.137***
5. Repeat this for the following IPs: 159.65.245.183, 157.245.11.147
6. In the Action field, select Allow.
7. (Optional) In the Zone field, select the zone that you want the rule to apply to.
8. (Optional) Enter a note in the Note field.
9. Click Add.
These simple steps will ensure FeedOtter can access your content.
For additional help and a more comprehensive understanding of Cloudflare's IP Access Rules, you can refer to [Cloudflare's support documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/ip-access-rules/).
### Advanced Rule for Bot Mode/Attack Mode Situations
If your Cloudflare configuration is more strict and utilizes the following Cloudflare "features".
* Attack Mode
* Bot Mode
* Hotlink Protection
You will need to create a custom Rule. As of 8-28-25 it seems that both IP and user-agent must be added to the rule to be effective.
Construct your rule as seen below using the OR condition. Our IP and user-agent string are listed below the images for convienence.
#### IPs and User-Agent
```
104.236.230.137
138.197.57.176
157.245.11.147
159.65.245.183
159.89.252.192
```
```
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FeedOtter/2.1; +http://www.feedotter.com/privacy)
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.6367.78 Safari/537.36
```
In the rule details, instruct Cloudflare to skip all the offending checks when it comes to your website images and urls for the FO crawler. Refer to the image below.
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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation
If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.
Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:
```
GET https://docs.feedotter.com/cloudflare/whitelist-feedotter-on-cloudflare.md?ask=
```
The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.
Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.