Apperah-EventBot

User-Agent: Apperah-EventBot/1.0 (+https://apperah.com/bot; contact: bots@apperah.com)

What it does

Apperah-EventBot fetches public event listings from venue websites (concert halls, museums, restaurants with calendars, community centres) so users of the Apperah app can see "what's on" near them. We extract structured event data — title, date, time, ticket link — and link back to the venue's own page as the canonical source.

What it does not do

• It does not crawl ticketing platforms, social media, review sites, or aggregators. We intentionally only read venues' own websites.
• It does not collect personal data, account information, or anything behind a login.
• It does not bypass robots.txt, anti-bot challenges, or paywalls.

Politeness

• Honors robots.txt and the X-Robots-Tag response header.
• Honors <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> and <meta name="tdm-reservation" content="1"> (EU TDM opt-out).
• Per-host rate-limited; backs off on 429 and 503 with the Retry-After header.
• Sends conditional GETs (If-None-Match / If-Modified-Since) on revisits — most repeat fetches return 304 and consume no bandwidth or CPU on your side.

Opting out

You can stop us crawling your site at any time. Pick whichever is easiest:

• robots.txt:

  User-agent: Apperah-EventBot
  Disallow: /

• Per-page: add <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> or the X-Robots-Tag: noindex response header to the pages you don't want indexed.
• Email: write to bots@apperah.com with the domain you'd like blocked. We respond within two business days.

Contact

Bug reports, questions, or feedback: bots@apperah.com.