# ClippingAlphaBot

ClippingAlphaBot reads the public pages of the clipping platforms we track and the briefs they link to. It obeys robots.txt and paces every host.

As of 09:40 UTC on 27 Oct 2026. Page: https://clippingalpha.com/bot

Last updated 26 October 2026

ClippingAlpha tracks live clipping campaigns and scores what they pay a clipper. Our crawler reads the public campaign pages of the clipping platforms we track, under a data agreement with each platform.

## User agents

- **ClippingAlphaBot/1.0 (+https://clippingalpha.com/bot)**: The public campaign pages of the clipping platforms we track, the documents and sites a campaign's public brief links to, and robots.txt.
- **ClippingAlphaMedia/1.0 (+https://clippingalpha.com/bot)**: Media files a campaign's brief links to, such as a footage folder the brand shares for clippers.

## How it fetches

- **robots.txt**: Read before any page on a host and kept for 24 hours. We follow the group for ClippingAlphaBot, else the group for every agent. A path either group disallows is never fetched, except a platform feed its data agreement with us names.
- **Pace**: One request at a time per host, at least one second apart, or the host's Crawl-delay up to 10 seconds. A 429 or 503 backs the crawler off.
- **How often**: Every 10 minutes for a busy campaign, every hour for most and every 6 hours for a quiet one. After a campaign ends, once a day for 2 weeks, then once a week until day 60.
- **What it never does**: It sends no cookie, password or login of ours, never signs in, never submits a form and never posts.

## Contact

To slow it down, block a path or ask about a fetch, email [privacy@clippingalpha.com](mailto:privacy@clippingalpha.com?subject=ClippingAlphaBot) with your host name. The clipping platforms we read are on [All clipping platforms](https://clippingalpha.com/boards).