EarningsTrackerBot
What our crawler is, what it fetches, and how to control it.
EarningsTrackerBot reads companies' own investor-relations pages and regulatory filings (SEC EDGAR, LSE RNS, ASX) for earnings dates, dividend declarations and press releases, to publish an earnings and dividend calendar. It reads only pages a visitor could open, honours robots.txt, and collects no personal data.
EarningsTracker builds an earnings and dividend calendar for publicly listed companies. Most of our data comes from regulatory filings — SEC EDGAR, LSE RNS, ASX announcements. We also read a small number of pages on companies' own investor-relations sites, because a company usually announces the date of its next earnings call there before it files anything with a regulator.
This page exists so anyone who sees our traffic in their logs can identify it, verify it, and decide what to do about it.
Identifying our requests
User agent
Requests we make as a declared crawler send:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EarningsTrackerBot/1.0; +https://www.earningstracker.com/about/earningstracker-bot)
Source addresses
All of our automated traffic originates from these static addresses. They do not change without this page changing first.
45.55.185.179138.197.103.28
Verifying by address alone is safer than trusting a user-agent string, which anyone can copy.
How it behaves
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robots.txt is honoured — we fetch and parse it per
RFC 9309 before requesting anything from a host, and we respect
Crawl-delaywhere it is set. - Low volume. A company's IR site is visited at most a few times a day, and we rate-limit per host rather than per worker, so our total request rate to any one host stays low regardless of how much work we are doing.
- Read-only. We issue GET requests for pages a visitor could open. We never submit forms, attempt authentication, or access anything behind a login.
- Narrow scope. We look for earnings dates, call times and dividend declarations — typically the investor-relations landing page, an events or calendar page, and press releases linked from them. We do not mirror sites or crawl them broadly.
- No personal data. We are not interested in, and do not collect, information about individuals.
If you would rather we did not
Add this to your robots.txt and we will stop. Our next
fetch re-reads it, so the change takes effect within a day.
User-agent: EarningsTrackerBot Disallow: /
We would rather be blocked deliberately than silently, so if our behaviour is a problem, please tell us — we will fix it. If you would prefer we fetched something in a different way, that is usually easy to arrange.
Contact
bot@earningstracker.com — a real address, read by a person. Include a log excerpt if you have one and we will identify the request.