TabTenderBot

What it collects

Only what a restaurant, bar or cafe publishes about itself on its own website: the business name, street address, business phone number, website address, and the names and prices of items on its menu. We find venues using OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License), then read the venue's own site.

A venue's page shows average prices per category and the item names and prices behind those averages, with a link to the venue's own website and menu. Item descriptions are never stored, so it is a price list rather than a copy of the menu, and it is a snapshot: the venue's own site is always the live one. If you would rather we didn't, tell us and we'll stop.

What it never collects

• Information about people: no emails, names, reviews, or photos.
• Anything behind a login, a form, or a paywall.
• Anything from review sites, delivery or ordering apps, booking services, or social networks. It only reads a venue's own website.

How it behaves

• It follows your robots.txt, including rules written for TabTenderBot and any Crawl-delay.
• It waits at least 10 seconds between requests to a site, uses one connection at a time, and reads at most 15 pages per visit.
• It stops at once if a site answers with an access-denied or too-many-requests response, and it never works around a block.
• It skips pages marked noindex or noai, sites that reserve text-and-data-mining rights, and sites whose terms forbid automated collection.
• It revisits a site about every 90 days to keep prices current.

How to block it

Add this to your site's robots.txt and it won't come back:

User-agent: TabTenderBot
Disallow: /

Opt out or ask for a change

Own or run a venue and want us to stop crawling your site, take a page down, or fix something on it? Contact us with your website address. We record the opt-out on our side too, so it holds even if your robots.txt changes.