CloutStackBadgeBot
If you see this in your logs, it is us checking that a listing on CloutStack still displays our badge.
- User agent
- CloutStackBadgeBot/1.0 (+https://cloutstack.net/bot)
- Requests
- One GET per check, of a single page you gave us
- How often
- Every 10-second-capped request, six-hourly for a listing's first week, then weekly
- Timeout
- 10 seconds
- Redirects
- Up to 3 followed
- What it reads
- Only the HTML. No assets, no forms, nothing submitted
If we cannot reach you
A timeout, a server error or a bot challenge is never treated as a missing badge. Those results are recorded as inconclusive, we back off and try again later, and your listing is untouched. If it keeps happening we look at it ourselves rather than penalising you.
If your firewall or bot filter blocks us, allow the user agent above. Cloudflare users can add a rule matching that string.
Opting out
Free listings exist because of the badge, so a listing that we cannot verify cannot stay free. If you would rather we never visited, switch the listing to the paid tier from your dashboard and we stop checking that day. Write to hello@cloutstack.net if something here does not fit your setup.