FormulaiBot

We read published government form catalogues so that people can find the right form and fill it in. If you run one of those sites, this page is for you.

How to recognise it

Every request carries this, and nothing we run pretends to be a browser:

FormulaiBot/1.0 (+https://www.formulai.ca/about-our-crawler; contact@formulai.ca)

What it takes

Catalogue pages, to learn which forms exist and what they are called.
The form documents themselves, to read their fields. We do not republish them: every page here links to your copy rather than serving ours.

One request at a time, with a pause between them. We are not trying to be fast.

How to stop it

We read robots.txt on every host before every request and obey what it says. To slow us down or shut us out, name us:

User-agent: FormulaiBot
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /some/path

Or write to contact@formulai.ca and we will do it for you. We would rather hear from you than be blocked.

What we are not

We are an independent service and not affiliated with any government in Canada. We do not train models on what we read, and we do not sell or redistribute the documents themselves.