When it visits a site

• Only when a person asks Mentu to read a menu: they paste the page link or scan the QR code on the table.
• It doesn't crawl sites, follow random links or index pages: it opens the given page and, when needed, the few pages of the same menu (for example its categories or the PDF).
• One page at a time. Readings are kept: the same menu isn't downloaded again for every person who opens it.
• Pages made only of scripts are opened in a headless browser, which identifies itself with the same name.

How to recognise it

The user agent contains “MentuBot/0.1 (+https://mentu.it/bot)”.

Requests are signed with Web Bot Auth (HTTP Message Signatures, RFC 9421): they carry the Signature, Signature-Input and Signature-Agent headers, verifiable with the public key at https://mentu.it/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory.

If your site blocks it

Mentu respects blocks: it doesn't get around bot protection, doesn't solve CAPTCHAs and doesn't pretend to be an ordinary browser. People who want to read the menu can paste its text or upload a screenshot.

If you'd like your guests to read your menu with Mentu, you can allow MentuBot in your site's or protection service's settings (for example with a rule on this user agent), or write to us: we can also link your venue with a dedicated link and QR code.

Contact

For questions or reports, including asking us not to read your site: analytics@ewebite.it. Mentu is run by Adrenalina Marketing srl (referente: Antonino Melardi).