About our crawler

EventAlertBot fetches public event pages so we can tell people when someone they follow is playing nearby.

Identifying ourselves

Our requests carry a user agent starting with EventAlertBot/ and this page's URL. We check robots.txt before every fetch and honor what it says, including any Crawl-delay. The one exception is OpenStreetMap's Nominatim geocoding API, which we call under its published usage policy rather than as a crawler: identified, cached, and paced at no more than four lookups a minute.

What we don't do

We don't create accounts, accept clickwrap terms, or try to get around bot defenses. If a site blocks us, we stay blocked.

Want us to stop, or have a question?

Disallow EventAlertBot in your robots.txt and we'll respect it on our next fetch, or reply to any email from us and a person will read it.