AudiocatalogBot — information for site owners

User-Agent: AudiocatalogBot/1.0 (+https://audiocatalog.net/bot)

We operate a reference catalog of audio gear and musical instruments.
Our crawler:
  • respects robots.txt
  • identifies itself with the User-Agent above
  • rate-limits to ~1 request / 5 s per domain
  • crawls only product sections
  • uses ETag / If-Modified-Since
  • extracts technical facts only (TDM exception, EU DSM directive);
    machine opt-out is detected and respected per source

We never copy marketing descriptions or shop photos.
Machine opt-out or removal requests: abuse@audiocatalog.net