MaaliBot

What it does

MAALI helps agencies, app developers and freelancers find Shopify stores that could use their service. When a MAALI customer adds your store, MaaliBot reads a few public pages so the customer can judge whether to contact you, and write to you about something specific instead of sending a generic pitch.

What it reads

• Your public storefront: homepage, /products.json, /meta.json, and your contact or about page if your homepage has no email address.
• Only the business contact address your store publishes. Never personal emails, phone numbers or social profiles of people.
• At most once a week per store, one request at a time with a pause between requests, and it follows your robots.txt.

Block it with robots.txt

User-agent: MaaliBot
Disallow: /

MaaliBot checks robots.txt before every visit and skips the store when it's disallowed.