PlantListCensus

PlantListCensus is a small research crawler run by an independent garden-planning project. It records which plants US nurseries list on their websites, so that garden plans only suggest plants people can actually buy.

What it collects

• Plant names and pot or container sizes as listed, the page address and the date.
• Nothing else: no prices, descriptions, photos, reviews or personal data.

How it behaves

• User agent: PlantListCensus/1.0 (+this page).
• Reads robots.txt first and follows the rules for PlantListCensus and *.
• At most one request per second per site; backs off on errors and Retry-After; never logs in and never solves challenges.
• Skips sites whose terms forbid automated access.

Opt out

Add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: PlantListCensus
Disallow: /

or send an opt-out request. We stop visiting your site and delete what we recorded from it within one day.