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Whitelist FeedOtter on CloudFlare

Add FeedOtter's IP address to your Cloudflare whitelist.

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 do to!) 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.

  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. In the Action field, select Allow.

  6. (Optional) In the Zone field, select the zone that you want the rule to apply to.

  7. (Optional) Enter a note in the Note field.

  8. 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.

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.

IP and User-Agent

104.236.230.137
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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