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Quartr Crawler

Quartr uses a crawler to obtain and deliver investor relations material.
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What is Quartr Crawler?

Quartr Crawler sits between public-company investor relations material and Quartr's data products. Its recorded purpose is to obtain that material and deliver it through Quartr, rather than to build a general web index.

Quartr's products cover first-party company information such as filings, presentations, and earnings material. The company positions that data for financial research, AI, and advanced search. Material gathered for Quartr can therefore have a downstream AI use, but that is different from claiming that the crawler trains a language model.

Unlike most named bots, this crawler has no published user-agent token or example user agent. Quartr identifies it through Web Bot Auth HTTP message signatures and publishes a signature directory at https://crawler.prod.quartr.cloud/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory. A verified signature is stronger evidence than a self-declared name in a request header.

Quartr does not document whether the crawler follows robots.txt. It also does not say that a crawl changes a company's visibility in general-purpose AI search. The supported conclusion is narrower: Quartr obtains IR material, and Quartr offers structured data for products that include AI and advanced-search uses.

Indirectly relevant

Is Quartr Crawler relevant for AI search?

Indirectly. Quartr Crawler has no AI product of its own, but its output can end up in the systems that AI answers draw on.

Quartr Crawler collects content from many sites and redistributes it through its own product. Aggregated copies can end up in datasets that AI systems later learn from, and some aggregators are themselves sources that AI answer engines draw on.

How to handle Quartr Crawler

Allow signature-verified requests when the organization wants its public IR material delivered through Quartr. If the crawl reaches unrelated sections, scope an edge or origin rule to the verified requester and affected paths instead of trusting an asserted bot name.

There is no accurate robots snippet to preserve because Quartr publishes no stable product token. Validate the HTTP message signature against https://crawler.prod.quartr.cloud/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory, then apply any allow, rate, or block decision to the verified traffic.

Robots compliance is unknown. A guessed User-agent group may miss genuine requests and can also match an impersonator. Review signed request paths after changing controls to confirm that the intended investor relations material remains available or excluded.

Examples

  • An investor relations team publishes a report and allows the request only after its HTTP message signature verifies against Quartr's directory.
  • A CDN rule rates signed Quartr traffic to the IR document library without granting the same access to requests that merely copy a crawler name.

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Its documented scope is investor relations material. The record does not describe a general crawl of unrelated web content.

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