AntpinBot and ploosa-catalog-bot
AntpinBot
It reads public websites of manufacturers, distributors and resellers to learn what they
make, carry or resell. It identifies itself with the User-Agent
AntpinBot/1.0 (+https://crawler.antpin.com).
Until 30 September 2026 it identified itself as PloosaBot
(PloosaBot/1.0 (+https://crawler.ploosa.com)); robots.txt rules written for
PloosaBot are still obeyed.
What AntpinBot reads
Public company pages, such as home, about, contact, team, brands and line cards, and news. It keeps company details, and the names and job titles of up to eight people per company in management, sales, marketing, purchasing, product, operations or IT roles, named on the company's own pages, each with the page it was read on. It never guesses e-mail addresses.
How AntpinBot behaves
It obeys robots.txt (rules for User-agent: AntpinBot, and rules for
PloosaBot) and Crawl-delay, spaces its requests to each site, and
stops at a block. Listing sites (directories) are read through a proxy service and may not
show this User-Agent there.
ploosa-catalog-bot
It reads manufacturers' websites for the product catalogue of Ploosa. It identifies itself
with the User-Agent ploosa-catalog-bot/1.0 (+https://crawler.antpin.com).
What ploosa-catalog-bot reads
- Manufacturers' catalogue pages: specifications, images, categories, documents and identifiers.
- Sellers' publicly posted prices, with where and when they were seen.
- Company facts from a manufacturer's About, Company or Investor Relations pages.
- It never requests leadership, team, board or biography pages, or any other page about people.
How ploosa-catalog-bot behaves
It respects robots.txt and the site's terms, and records what they said when it fetched. A
Disallow on a catalogue path is not overridden.
What the data is used for
- Company and product details may be offered to AI agents through antpin (https://antpin.com).
- Ploosa's product catalogue on ploosa.com (which brands and products a company carries).
- Ploosa's business-to-business sales research (which companies to contact).
- The names and job titles it keeps about people are used only for Ploosa's own sales research. They are not sold and not offered to agents on antpin.
- ploosa-catalog-bot's product data is supplied to Ploosa's product catalogue on ploosa.com.
How to block them
Add this to your site's robots.txt to block AntpinBot:
User-agent: AntpinBot Disallow: /
and this to block ploosa-catalog-bot:
User-agent: ploosa-catalog-bot Disallow: /
How to opt out or ask about your data
To opt out, or to ask about your data, e-mail [email protected]. Include your name and the company website. Objections are honoured for that person at that company, and are kept so the person is not collected again.
Retention
Names and job titles of people are deleted once they have not been seen on the company's site for 180 days.