Robots

Last Updated: December 14, 2022

Ollie uses one robot to get additional information from around the web:

Olliebot 0.1 (+https://www.ollie.fyi/legal/robots)

This robot responds to links that users post to their boards. This is very similar to how Slack does things. We are looking for oEmbed and Open Graph tags to show reasonable embeds or link previews to our users.

Requests are saved until the preview is in some way refreshed, and requests for social previews images should happen at most once per day per URL. You should not be seeing frequent requests for the same URL from us. If you do, this is a sign that one of our users is abusing our service — please alert us if this happens at abuse@ollie.fyi.

Okay, but please stop

We currently do not honor robots.txt as we are not a crawler — we're only acting on behalf of a user.

If you'd like us to add you to a blocklist/allowlist or have any questions about our robots, please contact us.

Change log

• October 11, 2022: Added document.
• November 30, 2022: Added clarification on preview request behavior.
• December 14, 2022: Switch url with URL.