ZackBot

What it fetches

Public event listings only: venue programmes, public feeds, calendars and event pages. It never logs in, never solves CAPTCHAs and never uses proxies.

How often

At most one request every 2 seconds per host, or slower if your robots.txt sets a Crawl-delay. It uses conditional requests (ETag, If-Modified-Since), so an unchanged page costs you almost nothing.

robots.txt

ZackBot reads robots.txt before every path it requests and never fetches a disallowed one.

What it keeps

Facts and links only: title, times, place, price, lineup names, status and a link back to your page. No descriptions, no images, no flyers. Raw responses are deleted within 24 hours, and every event a few hours after it ends.

Opt out

Add these lines to your robots.txt. ZackBot picks the change up within 24 hours.

User-agent: ZackBot
Disallow: /

Contact

Questions, corrections or a request to stop: use the report page.