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EveryReaderBot

EveryReaderBot is the web crawler that EveryReader, a service of Purely Works, uses to find and check documents on public websites.

What it does

  • Reads public pages on government, school and other public-entity websites, and the documents linked from them (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
  • Checks each document for basic accessibility facts: tags, real text, title, language, fonts and contrast.
  • Stays on the organization's own domains and the document-hosting services they link to.
  • Never logs in, submits forms, or reads anything behind a password.

How it behaves

  • Honors robots.txt, including Crawl-delay.
  • Makes at most one request per second to any host, and caps the number of pages it reads per site.
  • Identifies itself with the user agent EveryReaderBot/1.0 (+https://everyreader.purelyworks.com/bot; farid@purelyworks.com).

Controlling it

To keep EveryReaderBot out of all or part of your site, add rules to your robots.txt:

User-agent: EveryReaderBot
Disallow: /

Questions or problems: email farid@purelyworks.com.