Our crawler
HeyVitae-PostingWatcher
If you found this address in your logs, this is what that traffic is and how to reach us about it. It identifies itself as:
HeyVitae-PostingWatcher/1.0 (+https://heyvitae.com/bot)
- What it reads
- Public job postings only: the listings employers publish on their careers boards through Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Workday, Rippling, Personio, Recruitee, Teamtailor, Pinpoint and JazzHR, and the posting pages of jobs our users have saved. Titles, locations, descriptions and dates. It never signs in, never applies, and collects nothing about the people who visit your site.
- Why
- Job seekers use Hey Vitae to find open roles they fit and to know when a job they saved has closed. Every role we show links to your own posting, so applicants arrive on your board.
- How often
- Each board at most once a day, and boards whose listings rarely change as little as once a week. Requests are conditional, so a board that has not changed answers “not modified” and costs you almost nothing.
- How gently
- Every request checks the host's robots.txt first. We do not fetch anything it disallows, and we wait out any Crawl-delay it sets. Requests to each host are spaced out, and to hosts shared by many employers no faster than one a second. If a board or its host answers 403 or 429, we stop asking it and wait longer each time before trying again.
- To opt out, or to ask us anything
- Write to us through the contact page with your careers board address. We will stop reading it and keep it stopped, and a person will reply.