Acceptable Use Policy

Effective 17 October 2026

strawbi reads other people's websites on your behalf, so the rules are mostly about treating those websites, and their owners, decently. This policy is part of our Terms of Service.

Do

• Add websites you run, work on, or have a legitimate reason to keep an eye on, such as your own company's site.
• Verify the sites you own so we can crawl them fully.
• Tell us if a crawl did something it shouldn't have.

Don't

• Use strawbi to put load on a website, probe it for weaknesses, or get around its access controls or robots.txt.
• Add a website in order to harass, surveil or profile the people behind it.
• Try to extract or republish the content we store from sites you don't own.
• Use automation to create accounts, add sites in bulk, or trigger crawls beyond the limits the product sets.
• Use strawbi for anything unlawful, or to monitor sites whose content is unlawful to possess where you are.

What happens if you do

We may remove a site, pause crawling, or close an account. We'll tell you why unless the law stops us. A website owner who wants us to stop crawling their site can block strawbibot in robots.txt, which we honour on the next visit, or email [email protected].