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PantryPersona-RecipeBot

A short note for site owners and curious visitors.

Who we are

Pantry Persona is a kitchen-management assistant for ChatGPT and Claude. When a logged-in user pastes a recipe URL, this bot fetches that page so the user can save the recipe to their personal pantry. Pantry Persona is not a search engine; we do not index, syndicate, or republish recipe content.

What this bot does

  • Fetches recipe pages on behalf of authenticated Pantry Persona users.
  • Only fetches URLs a user explicitly submits: never crawls, never spiders, never follows links unprompted.
  • Reads schema.org/Recipe JSON-LD when publishers expose it; falls back to HTML parsing only when JSON-LD is absent.
  • One request per user-submitted URL. We cache extraction results so the same URL is fetched at most a small number of times.

What this bot does NOT do

  • No autonomous crawling or link discovery.
  • No bulk scraping, no rebuilding of your site, no shadow index.
  • No republishing of your content. Extracted recipes are private to the user who imported them.
  • No training of AI models on your content.

Bot identification

Every request our bot makes carries this User-Agent header:

PantryPersona-RecipeBot/1.0 (+https://www.pantrypersona.com/bot)

If you see this UA in your access logs, the request was triggered by a real user pasting your URL into Pantry Persona.

robots.txt

We treat robots.txt as authoritative. Before any recipe-blog fetch, our extractor reads your site's /robots.txt and refuses the fetch if it disallows our user-agent. If you want a faster opt-out (or you want to deny our bot without changing your robots.txt), email us using the address below and we will add your domain to our deny list within one business day.

Opt out / contact

Email us at hello@pantrypersona.com with the subject line RecipeBot opt-out: yourdomain.com and we will stop fetching from your site within one business day. No verification, no friction. Your site, your call.

Questions about how a specific recipe was imported, or about how your content is handled? Same address works.