ReadyToolsBot and publisher choices
ReadyTools provides website analysis and web-context APIs. When these services retrieve a page, the automated client identifies itself as ReadyToolsBot. We do not provide a service designed to circumvent bot defenses, access restrictions, authentication or publisher rate limits.
How site owners can control access
- Publish an appropriate robots.txt policy for the ReadyToolsBot user agent, including disallowed paths.
- Responses such as 401, 403, 429 and 451, and applicable Retry-After/Crawl-delay directives, are handled as access or pacing signals rather than obstacles to bypass.
- Robots directives are re-evaluated for redirects. A cached response is not a reason to serve content forbidden by the currently applicable access policy.
- Tell us about mistaken access, excessive requests or a content-removal concern at [email protected]. Please include the hostname, affected URLs and approximate UTC time.
Content usage is separate from crawler access
Permission to retrieve a URL under robots.txt is not a licence to republish, train models on or commercially reuse its contents. Publisher content-use preferences and applicable copyright, privacy and contractual restrictions remain separate considerations. API customers are responsible for obtaining any rights required for their intended use of retrieved information.
Identification and security
Automated requests are subject to URL validation, DNS/IP safety checks, origin concurrency limits, retry/backoff rules and network timeouts. We do not rotate identities to evade access denials. A cryptographic bot identity may be introduced later; no such credential should be treated as permission to override publisher rules.
This page describes ReadyTools' intended operating policy, not an independent guarantee of access to every website. See our Terms of Use.