ShotsNewsBot

ShotsNewsBot reads the public news feeds listed on our sources page, so SHOTS can show their headlines with a link to each story.

How it identifies itself

ShotsNewsBot/1.0 (+https://shots.news/bot; contact: publishers@shots.news)

What it does

• Reads only the feed addresses in our register, on the publisher’s own domain.
• Asks at most once every five minutes per feed, and less often when your feed’s <ttl> or Cache-Control asks for that.
• Sends If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since, so an unchanged feed costs you almost nothing.
• Backs off when your server is busy and honours Retry-After.
• Never stores your articles. It checks once that the picture in your feed loads; when the feed names none, it reads the top of the story page once for the picture you chose for sharing (og:image) and keeps only its address.

How to control it

It obeys robots.txt. To stop it, add:

User-agent: ShotsNewsBot
Disallow: /

Or write to publishers@shots.news or use the publishers page. We act within 24 hours.