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Acceptable use

Pageteer is for reading the public web. This is a summary; the Acceptable Use Policy is what applies.

Not allowed

  • Logging in, checking out, creating or operating accounts, or submitting forms. The API has no form-submission or typing feature; page actions are read-only (scroll, wait, "Load more"-style clicks) and refuse form fields, submit buttons, login forms and links to other sites.
  • Interacting with CAPTCHAs or bot checks, by any means. A CAPTCHA ends the request.
  • Banking and financial account portals, government service logins, healthcare patient portals, webmail, password managers and payment checkouts. These are denylisted and refused with 403 forbidden_target.
  • Private, internal or local network addresses.
  • Harvesting personal data beyond publicly listed business contact details.
  • Overloading sites, evading a site's explicit blocks of you, or anything illegal.

Enforcement

These rules are enforced in the API and double-checked by the rendering engine. We watch for abuse signals such as spikes against a single host. Abuse leads to suspension; request logs (URL, status, credits) are kept for 30 days.

You are responsible for complying with the terms of the sites you fetch and the laws that apply to you.