producerfm-bot

producerfm-bot is the web robot of producer.fm, a directory of music production tools. This page is for the owners of the sites it visits.

What it collects

It reads a vendor's own product pages. It collects facts from them: name, price, formats, operating systems, requirements and video links. It also keeps the descriptions as source material for our own text.

What it does not do

  • It does not log in.
  • It does not fill in forms.
  • It does not buy anything.
  • It does not collect personal data.
  • It does not copy pages onto the site.

How it behaves

  • It obeys robots.txt.
  • It makes one request at a time to a site.
  • It waits several seconds between requests.
  • It stops for a site that answers with a block or a rate limit.

Ask us to stop

Write to info@producer.fm and we will stop visiting your site.

Block it in robots.txt

Add these lines to the robots.txt of your site:

User-agent: producerfm-bot
Disallow: /