Crawler

Bot

Release Type reads public foundry feeds. When a studio has no feed, it reads that studio’s sitemap and news page for announcements. The crawler is a script. It does not browse as a person.

Identity

User-agent: ReleaseTypeBot (+https://releasetype.com/bot)

Rules

• robots.txt is read first. A disallow is a stop. A crawl-delay is honoured up to twenty seconds; slower than that, the host is skipped for the run.
• At most one request every two seconds to a host, and only a few hosts at once.
• Repeat visits send ETag and If-Modified-Since when the host provided them.
• Font files, zip archives, and PDFs are not stored. The only images saved are up to three pictures from the foundry’s own release page or press kit. They are resized, credited, and can be removed by setting removed on the image.
• Announcements that only might be a release are kept in a private review file. They are not given a public page.

If a page should not be fetched, disallow ReleaseTypeBot in robots.txt.

To correct or remove a listing, use the contact link below. hello@releasetype.com