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LiveryBot

The Polite Design Crawler

LiveryBot visits a public page when someone asks for a design kit of it, measures the design, and leaves. Here's exactly what one visit looks like.

One visit

Asked For, Checked, Measured, Gone

Every visit follows the same four steps, in this order.

  1. livery.site/example.com

    One visit, because someone asked

    01

    Someone Asks

    LiveryBot visits a public page only when someone asks Livery for a kit of it. It never crawls on its own.

  2. robots.txt
    Allow: /
    livery.json
    none, so style only
    02

    Your Rules First

    It reads robots.txt and your livery.json before anything else, and follows rules addressed to it, or to *.

  3. 1440

    768

    390

    03

    Three Screen Sizes

    It renders the page at desktop, tablet and phone widths, the way a visitor would see it.

  4. Colours14

    Type styles9

    Spacing8px grid

    Radii6 · 12 · pill

    04

    Measured, Then Kept

    Colours, type, spacing, radii, icons and motion are kept as numbers, with a reference copy of the page: its markup, styles, drawings, pictures, fonts and motion.

What it never does

Four Lines It Doesn't Cross

  • Verify you are human

    Stopped. Told the person who asked.

    Never Gets Around a Block

    No CAPTCHA solving, no dodging bot protection or rate limits. When blocked, it stops.

  • /account/sign-in

    Never read

    Never Signs In

    Login, checkout, account and banking pages are never read; banking, payment and identity sites are refused.

  • Never Ignores an Opt-Out

    A livery.json with no levels stops new kits of your site and withdraws the published ones. Takedown requests are honoured the same way.

  • One visit a day, then cached

    Never Visits Twice a Day

    At most one visit per page per day; everyone else gets the cached kit.

Recognise, block or allow

Your Site, Your Call

Recognise It

Its rendering browser carries the same token in its user agent.

User agent
LiveryBot/1.0 (+https://livery.site/bot)

Block It

Add this to robots.txt. Kits already made can be withdrawn.

robots.txt
User-agent: LiveryBot
Disallow: /

Allow It

If your bot protection blocks automated browsers, add an exception for LiveryBot. Then check your site to confirm Livery can read it, and consider an opt-in file to share your own design rules.