VolpeBot

Last updated 3 November 2026

VolpeBot is the name Volpe uses when it reads public web pages for the people who use it. Volpe is a tool for planning and scheduling social media posts.

What it does

• Learns a writing style. When someone asks Volpe to learn the voice of their brand, VolpeBot reads pages from their website, usually their own, and measures the style of the text: how long the sentences are, the tone, a few example phrases. A short extract of that text may be sent to an AI service to describe the voice. The privacy policy has the details.
• Finds the pages to read. It looks at your robots.txt and your sitemap to see which pages exist.
• Makes link previews and reads feeds. When a person shares a link in a post, or adds a news feed, VolpeBot fetches that one page or feed, much as a browser would.

What it does not do

• It does not sign in, fill in forms, run scripts or read anything that is not public.
• It does not republish your pages. It keeps a short description of the writing style and a few example sentences for the person who asked, and they choose whether to keep them.
• It does not crawl on its own. It only reads when a Volpe user asks it to. A read covers at most 150 pages, fetched three at a time, and does not repeat unless the person starts another.

How to recognise it

Every request carries this name in its user-agent:

VolpeBot/1.0 (+https://getvolpe.com/volpebot)

Requests come from cloud servers whose addresses change, so allow or block VolpeBot by that name rather than by IP address.

Allow it

Some hosts, firewalls and “block AI bots” settings stop VolpeBot without any message, or answer it with a verification page (a captcha or a “checking your browser” screen) instead of your page. If you want Volpe to read your own site, ask your host or CDN to allow the user-agent VolpeBot. If your robots.txt turns away all bots, you can let VolpeBot in with:

User-agent: VolpeBot
Allow: /

Block it

Add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: VolpeBot
Disallow: /

When learning a writing style, VolpeBot checks your robots.txt before reading each page. It follows the rules for VolpeBot, or the rules for all bots if there are none for it. Changes are picked up within about ten minutes. The person who asked is told which pages were left out and why.

Questions or problems

If VolpeBot is causing you trouble, or you would like it to stop visiting your site, use our contact form or write to Show email address.