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OkidokesBot

OkidokesBot is the reader Okidokes uses to look at a store's public product list.

Okidokes helps people find products by how they feel. To do that we need to know what a store sells, so OkidokesBot reads the product list that the store already publishes.

It reads and nothing else. It does not buy, fill in forms, or sign in.

The name it gives

Every request will carry this user-agent:

OkidokesBot/1.0 (+https://okidokes.com/okidokesbot)

In robots.txt, the name to use is:

OkidokesBot

How OkidokesBot visits your site

  • It reads the public product information your store already publishes for software to read.
  • It will ask once per product we list from your store, at about one request a second.
  • It comes back at least once a month to check that the prices, photos and links we show still match your store.
  • It will stop if your site answers with 403, 429 or 503, and it will not try again that day.
  • It does not sign in, submit forms, or try to reach anything behind a password.

How to block OkidokesBot

Put this in your robots.txt:

User-agent: OkidokesBot
Disallow: /

We will look for OkidokesBot by name as well as for *, so a rule written either way will work.

We do not send a different name to get around a block. If your site blocks us, we stop there rather than looking for another way in.

To take down products that are already on Okidokes, write to support@okidokes.com.

Verifying OkidokesBot

Crawlers are normally checked by the address they visit from. We do not publish a list of ours yet, because our reader does not visit from a fixed address today. When that changes, the list will be on this page.

Contact

support@okidokes.com. We reply within five working days.

You do not need to wait for us to stop. A robots.txt block will take effect the next time our reader visits, without anyone at Okidokes doing anything.