For site operators
AlbertaTaxSalesBot is the crawler behind AlbertaTaxSales, a free, independent index of Alberta tax-sale auctions and town-owned land. It reads the pages where municipalities publish land for sale, so people can find them in one place, and every listing links back to the municipality's own page.
Every request carries this User-Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AlbertaTaxSalesBot/1.0; +https://albertataxsales.ca/crawler; contact [email protected])
It comes only from these addresses:
138.199.218.252a01:4f8:1c1e:8b68::1It never submits forms, never logs in, and reads nothing behind a password. It does not crawl a site beyond the pages above. The Alberta Gazette is not crawled at all: its publisher disallows robots, so issues are obtained by hand.
AlbertaTaxSalesBot obeys robots.txt, including rules addressed to it by name. To keep it off your site entirely:
User-agent: AlbertaTaxSalesBot
Disallow: /
If you would rather it read one page and nothing else, or read less often, write to us and we will set it up that way.
Bot protection (Cloudflare and similar) sometimes challenges every automated client, which blocks this one along with the crawlers it was meant for. If you are happy for AlbertaTaxSalesBot to read your land-sale pages, a rule that allows the User-Agent above, from the addresses above, is all it takes.
Questions, a request to stop, or a listing that misreads your page: [email protected]. We answer, and a request to stop is acted on the same day.
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AlbertaTaxSales is not affiliated with any Alberta municipality or the Government of Alberta. Every listing is a summary of a public notice. Always confirm it against the municipality's own notice before you bid or buy.