About ChiveRecipeBot

What it is

ChiveRecipeBot is the crawler behind Chive's recipe search directory. It reads publicly listed recipe pages so people can discover them, and every result links back to the original page on your site. It identifies itself honestly in its user-agent string, which links here.

Read our pledge to recipe creators for how we aim to support your work, bring cooks to your site, and respect your content rights.

What it collects

Chive uses ingredients and other recipe metadata a page publishes, including the recipe name, description, cooking times, yield, nutrition, ratings, and page URL.

Chive does not summarize or publish cooking steps from external sources. For those recipes, readers follow the link to the original page for instructions. Cooking steps are shown in Chive only for recipes users upload themselves.

Chive does not copy or re-host publisher images; recipe photos are loaded from your site by the reader's browser or streamed through a non-storing image relay.

How it behaves

The bot obeys robots.txt (including Crawl-delay), discovers pages through your sitemaps, fetches at most one page at a time per site with a delay of several seconds between requests, uses conditional requests to avoid re-downloading unchanged pages, and backs off immediately when a site returns errors or rate-limit responses.

How to control or opt out

Add a rule for the ChiveRecipeBot user-agent to your robots.txt to limit or block crawling; changes are picked up within a day.

User-agent: ChiveRecipeBot
Disallow: /

Page-level directives work too, in a robots meta tag or an X-Robots-Tag header, whether addressed to everyone or to ChiveRecipeBot by name:

• noindex keeps a page out of Chive entirely. If we already hold it, it is removed the next time we look.
• noai or noimageai stops Chive generating an AI-written recipe description from that page. The recipe facts and the link to you are unaffected.

Asking us to remove your recipes

Email support@chive.recipes with your domain and what you would like removed. A request sent from an address at your domain, or from the contact address published on your site, is fastest because it verifies itself.

What we commit to:

• We acknowledge your email within 2 business days.
• We stop crawling your site as soon as we acknowledge it.
• Your recipes are out of Chive search within 5 business days.
• We email you to confirm on the day it completes.

You do not need to send a legal notice or a DMCA filing, and we will not ask you to justify the request. If you tell us to stop, we stop.