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StartmeBot

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Start.me's fetcher. When a user adds a link or an RSS widget to their Start.me start page, this bot retrieves three things from the target site: the page title, the site's favicon, and the contents of any RSS feed the site offers.

Operated by Start.me · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regex[Ss]tartme[Bb]ot/\d
  • observedStartmeBot/1.0 (+https://start.me/bot)
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; startmebot/1.0; +https://start.me/bot)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Operator publishes no verification path

  • Respects robots.txt

    Does not honor robots.txt

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.