MealLabRecipeBot
If you found MealLabRecipeBot in your server logs, this page tells you what it is and what to do about it.
Operated by Meal Lab LLC for Anchovy — www.anchovy.app
How to identify it
Every request we make sends this user-agent, verbatim:
User-Agent: MealLabRecipeBot/1.0 (+https://www.anchovy.app/bot)
Requests also send Accept: */*, Accept-Encoding: identity and Connection: keep-alive. We make plain GET requests only, and we do not execute JavaScript.
What it does
Anchovy is a consumer recipe app. When someone using it pastes a recipe link, our server fetches that one page, once, and extracts the recipe into a structured format saved to that person's own collection.
Fetches a single URL, on a specific person's explicit request
Reads the page's existing HTML, as a browser would
Keeps the source URL with the saved recipe, so the person can return to your page
What it does not do
It does not crawl. It follows no links, discovers no URLs, and keeps no queue of pages to visit
It never requests a page nobody has asked for — there is no scheduled or batch activity
It does not collect content for a search index, for resale, or for AI model training
It does not attempt to reach anything behind a login, paywall or subscription
It does not copy your page. What is stored is a structured recipe, not your article
Request volume and rate limits
Rate: One request per person, per action. There is no batch or scheduled crawling.
Concurrency: No parallel fetching of a single site.
Repeat visit: Only if another person pastes the same link.
HTTP 429: We treat a 429 as a request to stop. We do not retry the page.
If you would rather we didn't
Write to us and we will exclude your domain. Please include the domain and, if you have one to hand, a log line showing the request — it helps us confirm we have the right traffic.
We will also answer questions about content licensing.
Contact
Operator
Meal Lab LLC
If you found MealLabRecipeBot in your server logs, this page tells you what it is and what to do about it.
Operated by Meal Lab LLC for Anchovy — www.anchovy.app
How to identify it
Every request we make sends this user-agent, verbatim:
User-Agent: MealLabRecipeBot/1.0 (+https://www.anchovy.app/bot)
Requests also send Accept: */*, Accept-Encoding: identity and Connection: keep-alive. We make plain GET requests only, and we do not execute JavaScript.
What it does
Anchovy is a consumer recipe app. When someone using it pastes a recipe link, our server fetches that one page, once, and extracts the recipe into a structured format saved to that person's own collection.
Fetches a single URL, on a specific person's explicit request
Reads the page's existing HTML, as a browser would
Keeps the source URL with the saved recipe, so the person can return to your page
What it does not do
It does not crawl. It follows no links, discovers no URLs, and keeps no queue of pages to visit
It never requests a page nobody has asked for — there is no scheduled or batch activity
It does not collect content for a search index, for resale, or for AI model training
It does not attempt to reach anything behind a login, paywall or subscription
It does not copy your page. What is stored is a structured recipe, not your article
Request volume and rate limits
Rate: One request per person, per action. There is no batch or scheduled crawling.
Concurrency: No parallel fetching of a single site.
Repeat visit: Only if another person pastes the same link.
HTTP 429: We treat a 429 as a request to stop. We do not retry the page.
If you would rather we didn't
Write to us and we will exclude your domain. Please include the domain and, if you have one to hand, a log line showing the request — it helps us confirm we have the right traffic.
We will also answer questions about content licensing.
Contact
Operator
Meal Lab LLC
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