Contact

Octocrawl and this site are run by Howard Lun. There are two ways to get in touch: GitHub issues, which are public, and email, which is private.

Questions, bugs and ideas

Open an issue on GitHub. For a question, add the question label. Issues are public: never post passwords, keys or personal data in one.

Privacy

For a question or request about your data, email hello@octocrawl.dev. What the site records is described in Privacy.

Security

To report a security problem, email hello@octocrawl.dev with “Security” in the subject. Please do not open a public issue about it until it is fixed.

Site owners

The preview names itself in its user agent: each request it makes carries the token OctoCrawl-Preview/1.0 (+https://octocrawl.dev) after a standard browser string.

It reads your robots.txt before it fetches a page and obeys the rules for octocrawl-preview, or for User-agent: * when no group names it. To keep the preview off your site:

User-agent: octocrawl-preview
Disallow: /

A group that names the preview replaces the * group for it; the details are in How the preview identifies itself. If robots.txt cannot be reached (a server error, no answer or a timeout), the page is not fetched; a robots.txt that answers with a 4xx status counts as no rules, as RFC 9309 provides. The preview never signs in, solves a CAPTCHA or gets past a verification page.

To report a problem with how the preview treated your site, email hello@octocrawl.dev or open an issue on GitHub.

Misuse

To report misuse of the preview, see the Acceptable use policy and email hello@octocrawl.dev.