VetaIQBot

Identification

Every request we make uses this constant User-Agent. We never pretend to be a browser.

robots.txt

We respect robots.txt by default. Any exception requires a recorded legal approval for that source and stays disabled until it exists.

Request rate

We fetch at a low rate, pausing between requests, and only during scheduled ingestion runs. We do not download whole sites.

If you block us

On a 403 or 429 response, a CAPTCHA or a firewall challenge we stop and mark the source as blocked. We do not retry, rotate IPs or solve CAPTCHAs. We never access anything behind a login.

What we keep

Facts with their citation and the document's sha256 fingerprint. From the press, only headline, link, date and our own summary; never the article text.

Opt out

Block VetaIQBot in your robots.txt with these lines: we honour it from the next visit. To ask for an exclusion without editing robots.txt, use the takedown form.

User-agent: VetaIQBot
Disallow: /

Contact

Questions or complaints about crawling: use the takedown form, the channel we answer today.