Saw show.pictures in your logs? Here’s who we are. Short version: we’re not a crawler. We don’t index the web, and we never copy photos from your site — photographers upload the photos they choose.
When a photographer adds their website to their show.pictures profile, we fetch that one page, once, to confirm it links back to their page. That’s it — no crawling, no following links, no images pulled.
| User-agent | show.pictures-verify/1.0 (+https://show.pictures/bot) |
| Trigger | A photographer adds or updates their site URL — never on our own |
| Frequency | Once per verification, on demand |
| Scope | The single URL provided — nothing else on your site |
| Images | Never fetched or copied from your site |
There’s nothing ongoing to block — it’s a single request your own visitor triggered. But if you’d rather we never fetch you, block the user-agent show.pictures-verify at your server, CDN, or firewall and we’ll stop (the photographer just won’t be able to auto-verify their link-back).