PlateopBot
PlateopBot is the fetcher used by Plateop (https://plateop.com). Our requests carry the product token PlateopBot in the User-Agent. That is how you recognise them in your server logs.
The full User-Agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PlateopBot/1.0; +https://plateop.com/bot)What PlateopBot does
- Fetches exactly one listing page. That only happens when a user pastes that link into Plateop themselves.
- Reads the asking price, the mileage and details such as year, fuel type and transmission.
- Uses that data only for that same user's report.
What PlateopBot does not do
- Does not crawl or index any website.
- Does not collect listings in bulk. There is no list of listings we work through.
- Does not store listing content as a database of our own. Does not cache, republish or resell that content.
- Does not bypass bot walls, login screens, or other access controls.
What PlateopBot respects
- We fetch robots.txt live for every host. We also read a general User-agent: * group. Does a site exclude us? Then we do not visit that site. Are we unsure what robots.txt says? Then we do not fetch the page.
- Sensible rate limits: we limit requests per user. We never hammer a site with repeated requests.
- A clear User-Agent with the product token PlateopBot, so you can always recognise us.
Access or questions
Want to explicitly allow PlateopBot? Add that product token to the allowlist in your robots.txt.
Questions or requests can be sent to [email protected].