For fly shops
We would rather work with you than crawl you.
Shop reports are the best conditions data in this sport, written by people standing in the water. Here is exactly how RiseCast handles yours, and how to change it.
Your name on every card
Nothing appears without the shop's name attached and a link straight back to the original report on your site.
Summary only, never the report
Conditions, flies, hatches, and a date. We never republish your full text, your photos, or your voice.
Traffic to you, not away
An angler who reads a two line summary and wants the detail taps through to your page. That is the entire design.
Off in one email
Write to bots@risecast.fish with your domain and you are out within three business days. A robots.txt disallow for RiseCastBot does the same thing without emailing anyone.
Partner instead
Send us the feed and skip the crawler.
An RSS feed, a JSON endpoint, or a plain email arrangement gets your reports into RiseCast faster and more accurately than crawling ever will, with the same attribution and the same link back. If you want your shop, hours, and phone number on the map for the water you serve, that is part of the same conversation.
Crawler at a glance
- User-Agent
- RiseCastBot/1.0
- robots.txt
- Fetched and honored before every crawl
- Frequency
- Once or twice a day, configured pages only
- Spidering
- Never. We do not walk your site
- On errors
- Exponential backoff on any 429 or 5xx