ChoozaBot
About ChoozaBot
ChoozaBot is Chooza’s website reader. It visits a store only when someone asks for a demo of that store on our site, reads a small sample of its products, and respects robots.txt.
When it visits
Only when a person types a store’s website into our “Try it on your store” demo. ChoozaBot doesn’t crawl the web, follow links to other sites or revisit on a schedule. Each demo reads the site once, and the demo, with everything read for it, is deleted after 24 hours.
What it reads
- The home page (store name, logo, colours, platform).
- Public product data: a Shopify store’s public product list, a product feed, or the structured data on up to 40 product pages listed in the sitemap.
- At most 100 products are used. It never signs in, submits forms, adds to cart or reads customer data.
How it behaves
- It reads
robots.txtfirst and skips anything disallowed forChoozaBot(or for all agents). - At most 4 requests at a time to a site.
- It stops after 45 seconds, whatever it has read.
- At most 5 demos per website per day, whoever asks for them.
How to recognise it
Its requests carry this user agent:
ChoozaBot/1.0 (+https://chooza.io/bot)How to block it
Add this to your robots.txt. A demo of your store then reads nothing and tells the visitor your site asked bots not to read it.
User-agent: ChoozaBot
Disallow: /Contact
Questions or a problem with ChoozaBot? Write to hello@chooza.io with your website address.