What is Artemis Web Crawler?
Someone using Artemis can follow a website or blog, and Artemis polls the corresponding web feed for that reader. The service updates once per day at about midnight in the reader's time zone. Its visits are subscription fetches, not an attempt to build a general index of the site.
Artemis publishes the full user agent artemis web reader/1.0 - https://artemis.jamesg.blog/bot. It uses HEAD requests and conditional GET requests with both If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match. When the feed has not changed, a correct 304 Not Modified response saves the publisher from generating and sending it again.
The bot page links to a list of polling IPs and gives a support address. Those are useful when a request rate does not fit the once-daily design, since a copied user-agent string is not proof of origin. The page does not name a robots.txt product token or explain robots handling, even though this bot marks the crawler as respecting robots.txt.
Artemis uses the fetched material in a human-facing feed reader. The operator does not describe any use for AI answers, search generation, or model training. Blocking the fetch affects readers who subscribed through Artemis, not a site's standing in AI search.
