# Data sources and crawler policy We read the public campaign pages of 7 clipping platforms, every 10 minutes for a busy campaign and every 6 hours for a quiet one. Checked 09:31 UTC As of 09:31 UTC on 27 Oct 2026. Page: https://clippingalpha.com/method/data-sources - **PLATFORMS**: 7 - **LIVE CAMPAIGNS**: 819 - **BUSIEST**: 10 min - **QUIETEST**: 6 h ## Clipping platforms we read Platform data comes only from each clipping platform's public pages, the ones a signed-out browser can open, and from the new-campaign emails platforms send to the accounts we registered with them. We read each platform with its permission and take no feeds, webhooks or private data from any of them. | Platform | Live campaigns | | --- | --- | | [Content Rewards](https://clippingalpha.com/boards/content-rewards) | 681 | | [Clipster](https://clippingalpha.com/boards/clipster) | 105 | | [Vyro](https://clippingalpha.com/boards/vyro) | 13 | | [Promote.fun](https://clippingalpha.com/boards/promote-fun) | 11 | | [Clipstake](https://clippingalpha.com/boards/clipstake) | 9 | | [Discord](https://clippingalpha.com/boards/discord) | 0 | | [Evangelist](https://clippingalpha.com/boards/evangelist) | 0 | ## What we read - **Campaign pages.** The title, the rate on each app, the minimum views and cap per clip, the budget total, spent and left, the rules when they are public, and the counts of clippers, posts, approvals and views where the platform shows them. - **Platform terms.** Fees, payout methods, the minimum withdrawal and the minimum age, from each clipping platform's public terms and pricing pages, each linked on its platform page. - **New-campaign emails.** An email only tells us a campaign exists. It never adds one by itself, because we read the campaign's public page first, and we never open the links in it. - **Briefs.** The public documents and sites a campaign links, for its rules and its footage. - **Footage.** Public source videos a brief names, to find the moments worth clipping and score how clippable they are. Their audio is deleted after 3 days and frames after 7. Transcripts and the brief text we read stay in private storage for our own analysis, never published. - **Top clips and example posts.** The view counts and links a clipping platform shows for its top clips, and the view counts of a brand's example posts. We show those posts as the app's own embed and never download them. - **Brand pages.** A brand's public site, for its name, logo and official links. ## How often we read Each campaign is read on a schedule set by how much it moves. Where a platform's list page carries every campaign's budget and rates, as Content Rewards' does, we read that list every 5 minutes and each campaign's own page every 6 hours for what only it shows. Alpha Scores are rebuilt every 10 minutes from the newest reads. | How often | Which campaigns | | --- | --- | | Every 10 minutes | New in the last 72 hours, a budget likely used within 5 days, one of the top 50 by Alpha Score, or a rate change in the last 24 hours | | Every hour | Every other open campaign | | Every 6 hours | Paused, or open for over 30 days with no change in the last day while the platform's request budget is tight | | Daily, then weekly | Ended, read once a day for 2 weeks, then once a week until day 60 | ## Our crawler ClippingAlphaBot fetches clipping platform pages and briefs, and ClippingAlphaMedia fetches the footage a brief links. Both name [their own page](https://clippingalpha.com/bot) in their user agent, read robots.txt before any page on a host, fetch one page at a time per host at least a second apart and back off on a 429 or 503. They never submit a form. The one place we sign in is Content Rewards, where our own ClippingAlpha account reads the campaign material the platform shows to signed-in creators, for our own summaries and analysis only. That material is never published. ## AI crawlers welcome Our robots.txt lets every crawler read every public page, search, answer and training crawlers alike. It names 26 crawlers with the same rules as everyone else, among them GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and CCBot, and its Content-Signal line reads search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes. Only private paths, such as accounts, the API and outbound links, and sorted or filtered copies of lists stay closed. Cite our numbers freely, with a link to the page they come from. ## Models we use Language models from Fireworks AI read public briefs, clipping platform listings, transcripts of public campaign videos and public brand pages, to pull out rules and the moments worth clipping. Azure Speech can transcribe public campaign videos. Models never receive account, visitor or alert data. ## What we never do - Sign in to a clipping platform, or read anything a signed-out visitor cannot see. Rules a platform hides until you join stay hidden on our pages too. - Take a feed, a webhook or a private API from a clipping platform. - Open the links in a clipping platform's email. - Submit a form or post anywhere. - Download a clipper's posts. They show as the app's own embed, loaded when you press play. - Collect clippers' names or email addresses. The [privacy policy](https://clippingalpha.com/privacy) has the full detail on public campaign data and how long we keep it. ## Common questions ### Which clipping platforms does ClippingAlpha read? 7 clipping platforms, Content Rewards, Clipster, Vyro, Promote.fun, Clipstake, Discord and Evangelist, with 819 live campaigns between them at 09:31 UTC on 27 Oct 2026. ### How fresh are the numbers? A busy campaign is read every 10 minutes, most every hour and a quiet one every 6 hours. The newest read was at 09:31 UTC on 27 Oct 2026. ### Does ClippingAlpha allow AI crawlers? Yes. robots.txt names 26 crawlers and lets each one read every public page, AI training crawlers included. ### Does ClippingAlpha use platform feeds? No. Every platform fact comes from our own reads of public pages, every 10 minutes to every 6 hours, and from the new-campaign emails the platforms send us.