About Mintrinbot
Mintrinbot is the link-preview crawler operated by Mintrin (https://mintrin.app). It fetches public web pages on behalf of Mintrin users so the app can display a title, author, cover image, and short description when someone shares an article link.
How to identify it
Mintrinbot identifies itself in two User-Agent strings, depending on which part of Mintrin is making the request:
Mintrinbot/1.0 (+https://mintrin.app/bot)— used when fetching article web pages for link previews.Mintrin/1.0 (+https://mintrin.app/bot)— used when calling third-party content APIs (e.g. movie, book, music metadata).
Both User-Agents include this page's URL so you can find us.
What it does
- Fetches a single HTML page when a Mintrin user pastes its URL.
- Reads only the document
<head>— Open Graph tags, standard meta tags, and JSON-LD — to extract title, description, author, cover image, and publication date. - Does not execute JavaScript, follow links, log in, or crawl beyond the page the user explicitly shared.
- Caps each response at 64 KB and follows at most 3 redirects.
- Does not bypass paywalls, captchas, or authentication.
Mintrinbot does not perform broad or recursive crawling. It only visits pages a Mintrin user has actively chosen to share.
How to block it
If you'd prefer Mintrinbot not fetch your pages, you can:
Block by User-Agent in robots.txt:
User-agent: Mintrinbot
Disallow: /
Block at your CDN or web server by matching the User-Agent string Mintrinbot/1.0.
Mintrinbot honors robots.txt directives. When blocked, Mintrin users sharing a link to your site will be asked to enter the title and description themselves.
Contact
Questions, abuse reports, or block requests: support@mintrin.app.