ScratchieHubBot

How to recognize it

It identifies itself with the User-Agent ScratchieHubBot/1.0 (+https://scratchiehub.com/bot), which links to this page.

What it collects

Facts only: game numbers, names, ticket prices, odds, prize amounts, prize counts printed and remaining, and dates. It does not store images, logos, ticket art, page copy or game descriptions. It reads public pages logged out. It never creates an account, logs in, accepts terms, clicks through a consent banner, or solves a CAPTCHA.

How often and how fast

• About once a day per lottery.
• One request at a time per host, at most one request per second by default, slower when a site asks.
• It reads and obeys robots.txt, including Crawl-delay.
• It backs off on errors, and a bot challenge or login wall ends collection from that host.

Asking it to stop

Add a robots.txt rule for ScratchieHubBot, or email [contact email]. A person reads every message. We stop collecting from a host within 24 hours of a request, and we do not argue first.