About CreditedBot

CreditedBot checks whether a site carries a developer's verification tag. It requests the home page and, if needed, /.well-known/credited.json. That's all it reads.

What it does

• One request to the home page per site and day at most, usually once a week.
• Reads at most the first 256 KB of the page, and only the <head>.
• Follows redirects only within the same site, never to other hosts.
• Stores whether the tag was found, the HTTP status and the link to the page's preview image (its og:image), if it has one. Nothing else from the page is kept.
• For a public, verified project, a screenshot of the home page is taken when the tag is first found and again about once a month, and shown with the project. Private projects are never captured.

How to identify it

User-Agent: CreditedBot/1.0 (+https://credited.dev/bot)

How to block it

Add this to your robots.txt. The bot respects it and the developer's project is marked as blocked instead of verified.

User-agent: CreditedBot
Disallow: /