About the RoleCall crawler

What it is

RoleCall is a free service that helps opera singers keep track of audition postings. Our crawler visits company websites that a human has manually reviewed and approved for monitoring — we never crawl a site nobody asked us to watch.

What it does

• Reads your robots.txt first and follows it, including any crawl-delay.
• Looks for pages about auditions, young artist programs, and casting calls — typically just a handful of pages per visit, not your whole site.
• Checks each of those pages roughly once a day at first, dropping to about once a week if nothing changes, so most visits are a single lightweight request.
• Re-scans the whole site about once a month in case a new page appears.

What it doesn't do

It doesn't submit forms, create accounts, follow links off your domain, or run anything but a plain page fetch (and, for a small number of JavaScript-heavy pages, a headless browser render — never any interaction beyond loading the page). It respects a minimum delay between requests even if your robots.txt allows faster.

Want it to stop?

Add this to your robots.txt and we'll stop within a day:

Or email crawler@rolecall.cc and we'll remove your site from the catalog by hand.