Recto’s collector

How to recognise it

Each request from the collector carries the following User-Agent header, where X.Y.Z is replaced by its version number:

RectoCollecteur/X.Y.Z (+https://www.recto-medias.fr/collecteur; contact@recto-medias.fr) bot

IP addresses

The collector only connects from the following addresses. A request that claims to come from it from another address does not come from Recto.

• 51.68.71.32

What it reads, and how often

• On a website: the robots.txt file, the home page and at most 5 legal notice, publisher information and contact pages.
• At least 1 second between two requests to the same website, one visit every 7 days at most, 2 MB at most per page.
• Never a form, an account, a cookie or a script; never a way round a block, a subscription or a certificate error.

How to stop it

Add these lines to your website’s robots.txt file. The collector stops reading your pages; the facts taken from public registers remain on the card, which then states “Legal notice: reading refused by the website”.

User-agent: RectoCollecteur
Disallow: /

If your website reserves its text and data mining rights (TDMRep protocol), the collector keeps from your pages only the relevant extract and its digital fingerprint, never a full copy.

Contact

To report a problem or to ask in writing for the reading of your pages to stop: contact@recto-medias.fr.

Collector policy: sources, personal data and rights of individuals