A respectful web crawler that helps build conversations around news stories
HackyChat is a social platform that creates chat rooms around news articles and web content. When users share a link, we fetch metadata (title, description, and image) to create a rich preview and help group similar stories together.
HackyChat is designed to benefit publishers. Every chat room links back to the original article, encouraging users to read the full story on your site. We're building a community of engaged readers who want to discuss your content.
Our bot only fetches publicly available metadata from your pages:
og:title or <title> tagog:description or meta descriptionog:image for article previewsog:site_name for attributionWe do not scrape article content, bypass paywalls, or store your full pages.
Our bot identifies itself with the following User-Agent:
HackyChatBot/1.0 (+https://hackychat.com/bot-info)
If you have any questions about our bot, want to adjust how we access your site, or would like to partner with us, please reach out: