nvokebot
nvokebot is the crawler behind nvoke. If you found it in your server logs, this page explains what it did and how to stop it.
- User agent
- nvokebot/1.0 (+https://nvoke.run/bot)
- Pages per site
- At most 8, and at most 2 MB in total
- Speed
- At most 1 request per second to your domain
- robots.txt
- Read before the first request and followed
Why it visited
nvoke helps businesses find contact details of other businesses. When a customer runs a search and your company is in the results, for example because it is listed on OpenStreetMap or shows up in a web search, nvokebot visits your website to find the email addresses published there.
It does not crawl the web at large. It only visits sites that came up in a customer search.
What it reads
The home page and up to seven pages that usually hold contact details: contact, about, team, imprint, privacy and legal pages. It stops at eight pages or 2 MB per site, whichever comes first.
From those pages it keeps email addresses and the URL where each one was found. It does not log in, submit forms or read pages that robots.txt disallows. nvoke never sends email to the addresses it finds.
Block it with robots.txt
nvokebot reads your robots.txt before it fetches anything else. To keep it off your whole site:
User-agent: nvokebot
Disallow: /To keep it out of certain folders only:
User-agent: nvokebot
Disallow: /team/
Disallow: /staff/A rule for User-agent: * applies to nvokebot too, unless there is a more specific nvokebot group.
Ask to be left out
If you cannot change robots.txt, send us your domain. We put it on our opt-out list and nvokebot stops visiting it. You can also write directly to bot@nvoke.run.
If your own email address appears in nvoke results and you want it removed, write to privacy@nvoke.run. The privacy policy explains your rights.