NorthLondonRedBot

If this user agent is in your logs, it is ours: NorthLondonRedBot/1.0 (+https://northlondonred.com/bot). A second string, arsenal-research (https://northlondonred.com), is a person at a keyboard checking one fact.

What it reads. Fixture and standings data from the leagues' own feeds, the broadcasters' published schedules, the club's website, a handful of public RSS feeds from news outlets, Companies House filings, and the Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons APIs. It keeps facts, titles, links and dates. Article and feed text is deleted once the issue ships.

How often. Never more than one request every five seconds to any host, and most hosts see it a few times a week. The busiest route, the broadcasters' schedule pages, gets about twelve requests a week. It reads robots.txt before anything else and stays off any path the file closes to crawlers in general. It carries no email address in a header, a URL or a payload, and it never pretends to be a browser.

How to stop it. Email hello@northlondonred.com with the host name. The route is switched off the same day, and nothing is retried with a different client. A 401, 403 or 429 from your server does the same job without the email.