HouseBot

HouseBot is the link-preview fetcher of house, a private app for small groups of friends. When someone posts a link, house fetches that one page once to show its title and picture in the post.

It sends HouseBot/1.0 (+https://tryhouse.app/bot) as its User-Agent, uses HTTPS only, makes GET requests without cookies or credentials, follows at most 3 redirects and reads a limited amount of each page. It does not crawl: it only requests links people post.