BrimmAudit is the crawler Brimm uses to read a website and audit it — only when that site's owner asks us to, by submitting the URL.
How it identifies itself
Every request Brimm makes carries a user-agent that names us and links back to this page, so you can always tell it apart in your logs:
The browser portion is kept so we can read sites that block unfamiliar clients outright; the BrimmAudit/1.0 token is the part that identifies us. Operators can switch Brimm to a fully transparent, non-browser user-agent if they prefer.
How to allow or block it
BrimmAudit obeys robots.txt. To control it by name, target the BrimmAudit token. For example, to block it entirely:
We honour Disallow rules for any page we discover while crawling, and we honour a Crawl-delay you set. The one page we always read is the exact URL the owner submits to us for an audit, because that is a direct, owner-initiated request for that page.
How politely it crawls
- Requests to your site are spaced out and capped in number — a single audit reads a small, bounded set of pages, not your whole site at speed.
- We back off automatically when a server returns a rate-limit or temporary-error response.
- We fetch public pages only, the way any browser would; we never log in, submit forms, or follow links to other people's sites.
Questions or problems
If BrimmAudit is causing trouble, or you want it to stop, email hello@brimmapp.com and we will sort it out quickly.