Bot Policy

cooperate.social

cooperate.social operates automated research agents that collect and analyse publicly available web content. If you have encountered one of our bots, this page explains what they do and how to contact us.

What our bots do

Our agents retrieve publicly accessible web pages, RSS feeds, and API endpoints for the purpose of independent research. They support projects in media monitoring, narrative analysis, and public-interest investigation. Collected material is used for computational analysis and editorial synthesis — not for republication of full-text content.

Identification

Our bots identify themselves with a User-Agent string that includes a reference to this page:

cooperate.social/bots in the User-Agent header

Crawl behaviour

We respect robots.txt directives.
We limit request rates to avoid placing undue load on origin servers.
We do not attempt to circumvent access controls or authentication.
We do not crawl content behind paywalls or login walls.

Opting out

To exclude your site from our collection, add the following to your robots.txt:

User-agent: cooperate.social Disallow: /

We will honour this directive within 24 hours.

Contact

For questions, concerns, or takedown requests related to our research activities, please contact:

research_concerns@cooperate.com