The Dibs agent

Dibs is a text-message assistant in Adelaide, Australia, that plans and books things to do with friends and family.

What it does on the web

It acts for one person at a time, only after that person asked for a booking by text.
It reads a venue's public pages (prices, times, rules) and its booking page, the way that person would in a browser.
It books only after the person replies YES to an exact place, time, party size and price.
It is not a crawler. It does not index sites or collect content to train AI models.

User agent: dibs/0.1 (personal booking agent; +https://api.dibsirl.com)
Requests are signed with Web Bot Auth (HTTP Message Signatures, RFC 9421).
Signature-Agent and key directory: https://api.dibsirl.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory

When it reads pages on its own (to check a venue's site), it obeys robots.txt (RFC 9309) and asks each site's robots.txt at most once a day.
It makes one request at a time to a site, with a pause between requests, and keeps readings for a few minutes.
It never solves or goes around a CAPTCHA or another bot check. When a site shows one, it stops and sends the person the link.
It never logs in with someone else's account and never pays without the person's approval.

Questions, or want Dibs to stop visiting your site: [email protected]. Venue owners: we would love to send you bookings properly, so get in touch.