PulsarBot

PulsarBot is the crawler identity for tech.pulsar trend discovery. It collects public signals used for technology search, trend summaries, and source attribution on pulsar.ivan.digital.

Identity

User-Agent: PulsarBot/1.0 (+https://pulsar.ivan.digital/bot; mailto:research@ivan.digital)
Website: https://pulsar.ivan.digital/
Contact: research@ivan.digital
Purpose: Trend discovery, search indexing, and public source attribution.

Crawler Policy

Checks robots.txt before crawling public web pages with the PulsarBot identity.
Respects disallowed paths and crawl delays for explicit PulsarBot fetches.
Prefers official APIs, RSS feeds, and documented data access paths over HTML scraping.
Uses per-origin rate limits and backs off on errors or rate-limit responses.
Does not use login-only, paywalled, private, or personal account content.
Does not bypass access controls or anti-automation challenges.

Opt Out

To block the PulsarBot identity, add a robots.txt rule for this user agent. Site owners can also contact us for source removal or rate-limit changes.

User-agent: PulsarBot
Disallow: /

Data Use

tech.pulsar displays short trend summaries with links back to original sources. Source pages remain the canonical location for the underlying content.