Our calendar reader

TripleC-GigGuide

Triple C is a not-for-profit radio station in Canada. It plays artists with upcoming shows and tells listeners where to see them live. TripleC-GigGuide is the program that reads venues' public event calendars for our free gig guide.

Quick facts

Run by
Triple C Radio Association, a not-for-profit in Canada
User agent
TripleC-GigGuide/1.0 (+https://triplec.fm/calendar-reader)
Signed as
Signature-Agent: "https://triplec.fm" (Web Bot Auth)
Public key
/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory
Contact
[email protected]

What it reads

  • Public event calendars of music venues: an events page, a calendar feed, or the pages of single shows it links to.
  • Your robots.txt, before anything else, once a day.
  • Nothing behind a login. It never signs in, buys tickets or leaves anything on your site.

How often

  • Up to four times a day per venue. A single show's page is read again about once a day.
  • One page at a time on each site, with at least a second and a half between requests.
  • Slower if you ask: it follows Crawl-delay in robots.txt (up to 30 seconds).

What we do with it

  • We list the show on the gig guide: who's playing, when, the price, and a link back to your page or your tickets.
  • Some pages are read with help from AI (Claude), to pick out the dates and acts. See our AI policy.
  • Not used to train AI, and never sold.

How to recognise it

  • Its user agent starts with TripleC-GigGuide/1.0 and links to this page.
  • Every request is signed (Web Bot Auth, RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures), with Signature-Agent: "https://triplec.fm".
  • Our public key is at triplec.fm/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory, so you or your host (Cloudflare, for one) can check a request really is us.

See what it makes

Two venues whose shows it reads, next to their own calendars:

The Rex Hotel, Toronto

Read from the event data on its events page.

Its page on Triple CIts own calendar

Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto

Read from a plain events page, with help from AI.

Its page on Triple CIts own calendar

Or browse the whole gig guide.

To stop it or slow it down

Stop it

Add this to your robots.txt and it won't read your site:

User-agent: TripleC-GigGuide Disallow: /

Slow it down

Or ask for a pause between requests, in seconds:

User-agent: TripleC-GigGuide Crawl-delay: 10

Run a venue? You can also claim your page to add, fix or remove shows yourself, or send us your calendar's link so we read the right one. Anything else: [email protected].