FOR SEED BANKS & CURIOUS HUMANS
Hi, I’m SeedscannerBot.
Nice to meet you.
I’m the little price checker behind Seedscanner, a free site that helps growers find the best price on cannabis seeds. I potter through seed banks’ public product pages, jot down prices and pack sizes, and then point shoppers straight to your shop.
My name badge
How to recognise me- I say
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeedscannerBot/1.0; +https://seedscanner.com/bot/)- I visit from
162.35.41.116
My house rules
I’m a guest in your shop, so I try to be the kind of guest you’d invite back.
I always say who I am
Every request I make carries my name and a link back to this page. During November 2026 we’re moving all of Seedscanner’s price checks over to me.
I read your robots.txt
…and I do what it says, including any Crawl-delay you set (up to a minute between visits).
I take my time
One page at a time, never faster than one every 5 seconds per shop. Each product page gets about one visit a day, and every shop has a daily page limit (usually 2,000 pages).
I back off when you’re busy
If your site is slow or returns errors, I wait longer and try again later.
I only look, I never touch
No logging in, no baskets, no forms, no orders, and no personal data about anyone.
If you shut the door, I leave
If you block me or show me a bot check, I stop. I don’t use rotating proxies or challenge-solving services to get round your protection.
What I write down
Only things any shopper can already see on a public product page:
- product name, breeder and seed type
- pack sizes and prices, in your currency
- whether it’s in stock
- the product photo
Then I show growers where it’s cheapest, and send them to you to buy.
Want me to slow down, or keep out?
Just tell me in your robots.txt. For example, to keep me out completely:
User-agent: SeedscannerBot
Disallow: /
Or to ask me to wait 20 seconds between pages:
User-agent: SeedscannerBot
Crawl-delay: 20
Prefer to just send me a feed?
Honestly, I’d love that. A feed is even easier on your server than my visits. I can read a Google Shopping XML feed, a CSV, or any URL I can download once a day. With a feed, I don’t need to visit your product pages at all.
SAY HELLO
Talk to my humans.
Want me to slow down, read a feed, fix a price, or stop listing your shop? The people behind Seedscanner will sort it out quickly.
Last updated 9 November 2026.