Our importer

If your shop's logs show a visitor calling itself ah-lovely/1.0 (+https://ahlovely.ie/; Ah Lovely directory importer), that's us. Ah, lovely is a list of people in Ireland who make or design gifts. We don't sell anything: every product we show links to the maker's own shop.

What it reads

Only the shops of makers we list, or are thinking of listing. It reads your robots.txt first, then your home page and your shop's public product list (on Shopify, /products.json and /collections.json), and now and then a product page. We use the names, prices, photos and whether something is in stock to show a handful of your products on your page here, each linking to your shop.

How gently it asks

• One request at a time, at least two seconds apart, usually fewer than 20 a day to any one shop.
• It runs when we add a maker or check their listing is still right, not on a timer.
• If your shop says it's busy, it waits twice as long. If a Shopify shop turns it away, it leaves every Shopify shop alone for ten minutes to an hour.
• Each request is signed (Web Bot Auth), so you can check it really came from us. Our public key is at /.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory.

How to turn it away

Add this to your robots.txt and it will read nothing else from your site:

User-agent: ah-lovely
Disallow: /

Or email [email protected]. If you'd rather not be listed at all, say so and we'll take your page down.

Contact

Barry, in Kildare, at [email protected].