Poke-Snoip

Poke-Snoip is a small, non-commercial hobby bot run by one person in Norway. It watches the Pokémon and One Piece trading card listings of Norwegian web shops and tells a private Discord community, and the members of its companion website, when a product is new, back in stock, available for preorder, or changes price. Every alert links to the shop's own product page, where people buy.

How to recognise it

• User-Agent: Poke-Snoip/0.1
• Requests are signed with Web Bot Auth (Ed25519, tag="web-bot-auth"), with Signature-Agent: "https://bot.namiratcg.no".
• Public key directory: https://bot.namiratcg.no/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory
• It runs from one home internet connection in Norway.

What it fetches

Only public category and product pages (or the shop platform's public product feeds, such as a Shopify store's products.json) of shops that sell trading cards, and only the card sections of those shops. It never logs in, never adds to cart, never checks out, and never fills in forms.

robots.txt and pace

• It reads robots.txt before fetching from a shop and obeys it (RFC 9309), including Crawl-delay and Request-rate. If robots.txt cannot be reached, the last policy it read stays in force, and with none it fetches nothing from that shop.
• One request at a time per shop, at least one second apart, slower when the shop is slow to answer.
• All Shopify stores share one budget of at most one request per second in total.
• It honours Retry-After. A 429 pauses the shop for at least a minute and slows it down. On Shopify a refusal pauses all Shopify stores together, doubling up to six hours while refusals continue. A 401, 403 or bot challenge pauses the shop from 15 minutes, doubling up to six hours. Missing pages back off from 15 minutes up to a day.
• It does not try to get around blocks: no rotating IP addresses, proxies, VPNs, changed User-Agents or challenge solving.

What it keeps

• It extracts the product name, link, price, currency, availability and product codes (such as EAN or SKU), and keeps these observations with their times in its own database, to detect changes and show price history and the lowest price across shops in its alerts.
• It does not store the pages it downloads: each page is parsed in memory and discarded.
• It does not copy product descriptions or store photos (an alert may show the shop's own product image, loaded from the shop), does not sell data, and does not use shop content to train AI models.

Contact

Shop owners who want the bot to slow down, skip their shop, or leave certain pages alone can write to namiratcg@gmail.com. A Disallow rule for Poke-Snoip in robots.txt is obeyed too.