SolisoBot

SolisoBot is the reader behind Soli.So. If you found it in your server logs, this page tells you what it does and how to control it.

What it reads, and when

It reads a page only when one of our users pastes that link into their own workspace — to build a description of their own brand from their own site. It does not crawl the web, it does not follow links from site to site looking for more, and it never collects pages for anything but that one person's request.

It obeys robots.txt

Every request asks your robots.txt first — including links our users paste themselves. If your file disallows us, we do not open the page at all, and we tell the person that your site asks automated tools not to read it and to paste the text themselves instead.

If your robots.txt is unreachable when we ask, we read nothing there until it answers again.

How to block it

Add this to your robots.txt and we will stop reading your site:

User-agent: SolisoBot
Disallow: /

A rule for User-agent: * applies to us too. We identify ourselves as:

SolisoBot/1.0 (+https://soli.so/bot)

How it behaves

• At most one request every two seconds per site.
• It reads text, and never submits forms, logs in or buys anything.
• It keeps no copy of your site beyond what that one user's brand description needs.

Questions

Write to info@soli.so and a person will answer.