StartmeBot
Listed onlyStart.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.