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HintListBot

HintListBot is the fetcher behind Hint List (hintlist.app). Its user agent is HintListBot/0.1 (+https://hintlist.app/bot).

What it does

  • It fetches only product page URLs that a person has saved to their own Hint List, to read the product title, image and price.
  • It makes roughly one request per saved item, with a short timeout, and does not crawl links or follow sitemaps.
  • It never fetches Amazon pages.
  • It respects robots.txt: it follows the HintListBot group if present, otherwise the * group.

How to block it

Add this to the robots.txt of your site:

User-agent: HintListBot
Disallow: /

Items from a blocked site can still be saved to a list, but Hint List will not fetch the page to fill in details.

Contact

Questions or problems: support@hintlist.app.