Mera News feed fetcher
This page is for publishers, webmasters, and automated systems that see requests from Mera News in their logs.
User-Agent
The Mera News RSS and Atom feed fetcher identifies itself with this exact string:
MeraNewsBot/1.0 (+https://mera.news/bot)
You can match on it directly in a firewall, CDN, or server rule.
What it fetches
It fetches only the RSS or Atom feed URL you have published, once per hour. It does not crawl your site, follow links, render pages, fetch images, or request anything beyond that one feed URL.
Conditional requests
It sends If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since on every fetch, using the ETag and Last-Modified values your server returned last time. If your feed has not changed, your server can answer 304 Not Modified with no body, and the fetcher will not download the feed again. That keeps the hourly request cheap for you. If your feed does not send those headers, the fetcher makes a normal request and nothing is lost.
How to block it
Filter by User-Agent. Block or rate-limit requests where the User-Agent matches MeraNewsBot. Because the fetcher sends this string plainly instead of pretending to be a browser, matching on it is reliable.
It does not fetch robots.txt. It only ever requests the single feed URL you have published, rather than crawling your site, so a crawl-exclusion file does not apply to it the way it would to a crawler that follows links. If you rely on robots.txt to manage other bots, do not expect it to affect this one; use the User-Agent filter above, or contact Mera Labs.
Ask Mera Labs directly. Email publishersupport@mera.news or open an issue at github.com/Mera-News/mera-news-rss-feeds naming the feed or domain. Mera Labs removes sources on request, no explanation or dispute required, and aims to acknowledge within 2 business days and remove the source within 5 business days. The same address works for a rate-limit request.
Contact
For the full policy on how Mera uses publisher content, see the content policy.