The Torrere reader

What the request with Torrere/1.0 in its user agent is, and how to refuse it.

Torrere is a cooking assistant. 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

What it does not do

Refusing it

Refuse it by name and it stays away. In robots.txt:

User-agent: Torrere
Disallow: /

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.