The Pinweaver bot

If you found PinweaverBot in your web server's logs, this is who it is. Pinweaver helps people who sell services to local businesses find the ones worth contacting. For a business a customer has found, it reads the website address that business lists on its own Google Maps profile, to look for a contact email address and social profile links that the business has published.

What it does

• It reads your home page and, only if that shows no email address, up to 2 pages that look like a contact page on the same site.
• It takes email addresses and links to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn and X profiles that are written on those pages. It does not guess, search for or buy any.
• It asks for your robots.txt first and obeys it. A missing file means everything is allowed, and a file it cannot read means nothing is.
• It never signs in, never submits a form, and gives up on a page that needs a login.
• It waits at most 5 seconds for any page, reads at most 1000 KB of it, and reads a given business once per customer request.

Keeping it out

Add this to your robots.txt. It takes effect the next time the bot visits, and nothing else is needed.

User-agent: PinweaverBot
Disallow: /