HintliBot
The reader behind Hintli’s on-site assistants.
What it does
HintliBot reads the public pages of a website so the assistant on that site can answer visitors’ questions from the site’s own words. It reads text: headings, paragraphs, prices, FAQs. Nothing else.
What it never does
- It does not log in, submit forms, or click buttons.
- It does not read anything behind a password.
- It doesn't look for personal data. It reads the public page text as published.
- It never sells what it reads. What it reads is used only to power that site's assistant.
- It does not pretend to be a person's browser.
How to recognise it
Every request we make carries this User-Agent header:
User-Agent
HintliBot/1.0 (+https://hintli.ai/bot)If you’re a Hintli customer
Nothing to do — your assistant reads your site because you installed it. If your pages look missing, it is almost always a firewall or bot-protection rule blocking us before we arrive. Allow HintliBot and we’ll pick the pages up on the next pass, automatically.
If you’re not a customer and want us to stay away
Add this to your robots.txt:
robots.txt
User-agent: HintliBot
Disallow: /We check it before reading your site for a preview, and every time we read it again.
Questions
Last updated: 25 September 2026.