BonusRoundBrandBot

If you’ve seen BonusRoundBrandBot/1.0 (+https://bonusround.io/bot) in your logs, it’s us. Bonus Round makes playable ads inside browser games. When a brand (or someone on its behalf) asks us to learn that brand, this bot reads a few public pages of the brand’s website to understand its name, colours, logo and products, so the ads we generate stay on-brand.

What it does

• Reads a small number of public pages: the homepage, plus at most a few pages listed in your sitemap or linked from it (about, products, press).
• Reads public metadata: page titles, descriptions, Open Graph tags, structured data, icons and the web app manifest.
• Saves a few public images, such as your logo and product shots, as reference art for generating the ad.
• May also use public sources like Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, and web search.

What it doesn’t do

• It doesn’t log in, fill in forms, or accept terms on your behalf.
• It never tries to get around bot protection or CAPTCHAs. If your site blocks it, it stops and uses other public sources instead.
• It doesn’t crawl your whole site: requests are few, spaced out, and limited per site.

How to control it

It respects robots.txt. To keep it out entirely:

User-agent: BonusRoundBrandBot
Disallow: /

Separately, when our agents look at a site in a browser to take screenshots, they use a standard automated browser and follow the same rules: few pages, no logins, no getting around blocks.

Questions

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