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Crawler

polite-crawler: a polite web crawler for research and AI agents. Fetch once, keep it, read it many times. robots.txt, one request per site, full-text search, MCP server.

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Facts

Published: 12 Oct 2026 (7d ago)
Medium: web
Language: English (the page says so itself)
Subject: Developer tools
First seen: 12 Oct 2026, 03:13 UTC

Built with

Claude Code: confirmed
the agent's own trailer in the repository's commit history

What we can see

77 hygiene score

Certificate issued by YR1, 19 days remaining
Cookie attributes no cookies set
Credentials and payment does not ask for either
Strict transport security set
Served over HTTPS
Mail authentication neither published
No insecure resources
Redirects none
Security headers 1 of 5 set, policy permits inline or evaluated script
Third-party origins 3
Transport security TLS 1.3

Observed 12 Oct 2026 by fetching the page as a browser would. This describes hygiene and transparency, not safety: a missing header does not make a site dangerous, and a complete set does not make it trustworthy.

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Changes we have seen

12 Oct 2026 first indexed

Crawler

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