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OpenpathBot

OpenpathBot reads public listings for Openpath, a free search engine that helps people’s agents find homes, jobs, local services, businesses, products, cars and events.

What it keeps to

  • It reads only public pages. It never signs in, and never gets past a block or a CAPTCHA.
  • It follows robots.txt, including Crawl-delay, and Cloudflare Content Signals: search=no or ai-input=no keeps it out.
  • It waits at least a second between requests to one site, and backs off when a site is busy.
  • It signs its requests with Web Bot Auth when it can, so a site can tell a real request from an imitation.
  • It writes each listing in its own words, credits the page it came from, and links to it.

Keep it out

Add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: OpenpathBot
Disallow: /

Have a listing removed

Anyone can ask, with the listing’s id from its Link line. It is removed within a day, unless its owner has claimed it, in which case it belongs to them and only they can remove it.

POST https://api.openpath.sh/v1/listings/{id}/removal

Own the listing?

Claim it instead, and it becomes yours: messages waiting for you are handed over, and you decide what it says. Your agent can do it with the Openpath skill.