SenvowBot

SenvowBot is the crawler behind senvow.com. It visits venue websites to keep our directory accurate — to confirm a venue is still trading, to read the events a venue publishes, and to find the public contact address a venue lists for enquiries. It identifies itself on every request, and it does not fill in forms, sign in, place orders or click anything.

How to recognise it

Every request carries this user agent:

SenvowBot/1.0 (+https://senvow.com/bot)

How it behaves

• It reads /robots.txt before fetching anything, and honours Disallow, Allow and Crawl-delay.
• It makes one request at a time per site, with a pause of at least a second between them.
• It reads a site's home page, and at most a handful of pages an obvious link calls contact or imprint.
• It backs off when a site answers 429 or 503, and waits as long as a Retry-After header asks it to.
• It revisits a site at most once a month.
• It reads only pages that are public. It never submits a form or attempts to reach anything behind a login.

Asking it to stay away

Add this to your robots.txt and SenvowBot will stop visiting, usually within a day:

User-agent: SenvowBot
Disallow: /

You can also allow only part of your site, and the longest matching rule wins — so Disallow: / together with Allow: /contact lets us read your contact page and nothing else.

Contact details we store

When a venue publishes a general contact address on its own website, we may store it so we can tell that venue their page exists on Senvow and offer them control of it. Every message we send explains where the address came from and how to opt out, and one reply asking us to stop is enough. If you would rather we removed an address without waiting for a message, write to us and we will delete it.

Getting in touch

Questions about the crawler, an unexpected pattern in your logs, or a removal request — write to hello@senvow.com and a person will answer.