All automated bots, spiders, crawlers, data-miners, etc that access information on FStructures.com are subject to the following policy. If you have been redirected to this page it is because we believe you to be in control of an automated bot. If that is not the case, please contact us at [email protected].

Data Formats

We provide a variety of user data in RSS XML format:

A user's recent entries syndicated using the Real Simple Syndication XML format. It's available with public entries only at:

http://www.FStructures.com/rss.xml

 

You are encouraged to use RSS instead of "screen-scraping" our pages.

Rates & Limits

You are encouraged to cache the results of your bot's requests, which saves us bandwidth and CPU time. Bots making repeated requests on the same resource (URL) in a short amount of time will be blocked. Please do not multithread your bot to access multiple resources at the same time and do not connect more than five times per second.

Well-Formed User Agents

All bots are required to have a well-formed user agent which includes a contact email address for the bot maintainer, and preferrably a URL to the organization running the bot. Bots without this information have a higher chance of being blocked. An example of a well-formed user agent is:

msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)

Contact Information

If you need specific information for research or data-collection purposes, feel free to contact us. If we've blocked your bot and you'd like to contact us about it, please email us.