Torrere
The Torrere reader
Torrere is a recipe app. It turns a photo of a recipe card, a link or pasted text into steps you can cook from. When someone using it pastes the address of a recipe page, Torrere reads that one page on their behalf, so the recipe on it can be cooked from without copying it out by hand.
What it does
- Fetches one page, once, because a person asked for that page. It does not crawl, follow links, or index anything.
- Identifies itself honestly as
Torrere/1.0 (+https://torrere.com/reader)on every request. - Reads the recipe from the page's structured data where there is any, and otherwise the visible text. Nothing else on the page is kept.
- Keeps what it read for at most ninety days, tied to the person's own account, and never publishes or shares it.
- Sends no cookies, follows at most five redirects, and gives up after twenty seconds.
What it does not do
- It does not pretend to be a browser. If your site answers it with a refusal or a browser challenge, it stops there.
- It does not use what it reads to train anything. It is the person's own copy, for the person's own kitchen.
- It never fetches a page nobody asked for.
Refusing it
Refuse it by name and it stays away. In robots.txt:
User-agent: Torrere Disallow: /
Torrere asks your robots.txt for that rule before it reads a
page, and again if a redirect takes it somewhere else. It keeps the answer
for an hour, so adding the rule stops it the same morning. A rule naming
Torrere wins over anything in your User-agent: * group, in
both directions: close the door to everyone and open it for Torrere, and
Torrere comes in.
One thing to know, because it is the honest version: if your
robots.txt cannot be read at all, a server error or a timeout
rather than a rule, Torrere reads the page. A crawler about to make
thousands of requests should back off there. This is one person opening one
link, and failing them because a file was briefly down helps nobody. A rule
Torrere can read is always honoured.
Or block the user agent at your edge. Either way, people who paste a link to your site are told it could not be read, and are not shown your content.
Questions
Write to support@torrere.com. One person reads it.