When you use this website you are agreeing to the following Terms of Service, where you are the "user" and we are the "website". If you do not agree to these terms, you may not use the website or API endpoints. The following list contains the terms of this agreement:
Website Access and Robots.txt Compliance. Our service respects the robots.txt protocol as part of our commitment to ethical web scraping. While we provide a "check-url" feature to verify robots.txt permissions, we cannot guarantee successful data retrieval from all websites.
Websites may block the service through robots.txt restrictions, rate limiting, IP blocking, or other access controls. In most cases, we do our best to not charge for upstream blocks and errors on target URLs. For pages that are 403 blocked and other error types, we do not charge. There are edge-cases where a site may not explicitly block Minifetch requests, but may return truncated page data. Payment is required for the attempt regardless of whether data can be successfully retrieved.
By using this service, you acknowledge these limitations and agree that no refunds will be issued for unsuccessful or truncated data retrieval attempts.
User Responsibilities. You agree to use this service only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You shall not use our service to: (1) attempt to access password-protected, authentication-required, or otherwise non-public websites; (2) retrieve data for purposes that violate applicable laws or regulations; (3) conduct activities that could reasonably be expected to adversely impact the availability of our service to other users; or (4) bypass or attempt to bypass our robots.txt compliance mechanisms. You acknowledge that our service is designed for accessing publicly available data and that the service will decline to retrieve data from sites that explicitly prohibit such access in their robots.txt file.
Service Limitations. Our service is designed exclusively for extracting publicly available data. To protect both users and website owners, we maintain strict operational boundaries:
Minifetch only extracts publicly available metadata and content from pages accessible without authentication and Javascript execution.
What Minifetch does NOT do:
What Minifetch does NOT do currently but may offer in the future as an add-on:
Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policies. This website and its API services repsect your intellectual property rights as well as the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been violated by the website, please fill out the feedback form. Additionally, you must provide your contact information including address, email, phone number as well as a statement that the information you have supplied is true and correct and that you are either the copyright owner or are authorized to act on on behalf of the copyright owner.
Data Collection and Privacy. Our service collects and processes certain personal information to operate and secure the platform. Account creation and authentication are handled by Clerk.com, which may collect your email address, name, and OAuth profile data depending on your sign-in method. Please refer to Clerk's Privacy Policy for details on how that data is handled. Payment processing is handled by Stripe, Inc., which collects billing information necessary to complete purchases. Please refer to Stripe's Privacy Policy for details. We store your email address and account balance internally solely to associate credits with your account and to communicate with you about your account. We maintain logs of URLs processed for operational, debugging, and security purposes; IP addresses in these logs are anonymized. We do not sell or share your personal data or internal service logs with third parties. Payment transactions processed via the Coinbase x402 protocol occur on a public blockchain and transaction details may be visible on public block explorers — this is inherent to blockchain technology and not specific to our service. For information on the privacy implications of x402 payments, please refer to Coinbase's documentation at x402.org.
Cookies.
Minifetch.com uses cookies for two purposes: authentication and payment processing.
Authentication cookies are set by Clerk.com to maintain your login session after you
sign in. These persist across browser sessions so you remain logged in between visits.
Clerk may also set cookies to support cross-origin session syncing between our site and
Clerk's hosted Account Portal. For full details on Clerk's cookie usage, please refer to
Clerk's Privacy Policy.
Payment cookies are used by the x402 protocol to verify payments and prevent duplicate
charges. These are session cookies that are automatically deleted when you close your
browser. You may clear them at any time; you will need to re-authenticate your payment
session when you return.
We do not use cookies for tracking, analytics, or advertising. Stripe does not set
cookies on our domain — payment forms are handled via Stripe's hosted checkout flow.
Limitation of Liability. In absolutely no event will the website be liable for any direct or indirect damages, nor loss of revenues resulting from use of this website or any third-party content contained therein, nor loss due to interruption of service or corruption of data.
Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the website and any of its contractors, licensors, officers, employees, owners, and agents from any and all claims, including attorney's fees, arising out of your use of the website.
Service Availability. The website is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We make no warranties or representations about the availability, reliability, or accuracy of the service. We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the service at any time without notice or liability.
Termination Rights. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to suspend or terminate your access to the service without prior notice if you violate these Terms, abuse the service, or engage in behavior that imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure or negatively affects other users' ability to use the service.
Governing Law. These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of California, USA, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any disputes arising under or in connection with these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within California, USA.
Changes to Terms. We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time at our sole discretion. Changes will be effective immediately upon posting to the website. Your continued use of the service following the posting of revised Terms means that you accept and agree to the changes.
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