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BuyerPingBot

BuyerPingBot is the reader behind BuyerPing. It reads public pages to find companies that are looking for new software.

How to recognise it

Its user agent is:

BuyerPingBot/1.0 (+https://buyerpingai.com/bot)

What it reads

  • Public community forums, status pages and pricing pages of software companies.
  • Public news feeds.
  • Public APIs that allow it, such as Hacker News.
  • One page of a customer's own website, when that customer asks.

How it behaves

  • Before it reads a website, it checks that site's robots.txt and follows it. The one exception is a customer's own homepage, read once at their request.
  • If a site blocks bots or shows a CAPTCHA, it stays out. It never tries to get past one.
  • It never signs in and never reads pages behind a login.
  • It sends one request at a time to any site.
  • It never sends email to the people it reads about.

Stop it reading your site

Add these two lines to your robots.txt. It checks robots.txt at least once a day.

User-agent: BuyerPingBot
Disallow: /

Contact

Questions or problems: help@buyerpingai.com