Your listing, and how we read your obituary page.
ObituaryMonitor reads public obituary pages so families and professionals can find notices. Here’s what our crawler does, and how to claim or correct your listing.
Update your listing.
Address, phone, website, obituary page, or a closed location. Tell us what’s wrong and we’ll fix it.
- ✓Free, and separate from any ObituaryMonitor product
- ✓We may confirm changes with your funeral home before publishing
- ✓Ask us to remove a notice or slow the crawl
Free. No account or subscription. Before we publish a change, we may confirm it by email at an address on your website’s domain or by calling the listed number.
What you’ll see in your logs.
What the crawler reads
Your public obituary listing page, about once a day. It reads robots.txt first, skips disallowed paths, and doesn’t submit forms, log in, or read private pages.
What we do with it
Names and links power alerts for our subscribers. Each notice is linked back to your website; we don’t copy obituary text, photos or guest books.
Want changes?
Ask us to correct your listing, slow the crawl, or remove a notice using the form above.
How to recognize it
The crawler identifies itself as ObituaryMonitorFHCrawler. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ObituaryMonitorFHCrawler/0.1; +https://obituarymonitor.com/crawler)
Requests come from our monitoring servers on datacenter IP addresses, not from visitors’ browsers. This bot only visits funeral-home websites. It is separate from search engines indexing obituarymonitor.com.
Requests and load
- About one request per funeral home per day for one public listing URL, plus occasional checks when we verify or update that URL.
- If your listing page needs JavaScript, we may render it in a headless browser with the same User-Agent.
- We may send small HEAD or GET requests to a sample of obituary links on the listing page to confirm they still work.
- Where robots.txt sets a crawl-delay, we try to honor it.
- If robots.txt lists a sitemap, we may use it to correct your listing URL. We don’t use it to crawl your whole site.
What it doesn’t do
- Republish or host your obituaries. Subscribers are sent to your URLs.
- Read staff, pricing or other marketing pages.
- Log in, get around paywalls, or read private content.
- Resell your website’s content.
- Pretend to be a normal visitor.
- Fetch a listing URL that robots.txt disallows for our agent.
To stop crawling, switch to a different public obituary URL, or report a problem, use the form above or contact support with your domain and the URL in question.