leadgate is a web crawler run by Bluecore Studios LLC.
If you found this page from your server logs, this is the User-Agent you saw:
leadgate/0.1 (+https://bluecorestudio.com/leadgate; mailto:dev@bluecorestudio.com)What it reads
Public company pages: homepage, security and trust pages, pricing, careers. Public job postings. We use this for B2B market research.
It does not log in, submit forms, or collect personal data.
How it behaves
- Obeys robots.txt, including after redirects.
- One request per second per site, at most.
- Backs off on 429 and 5xx responses.
- Reads a handful of pages per visit, about once a month.
How to block it
Add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: leadgate
Disallow: /Or email dev@bluecorestudio.com with your domain. We remove it within 3 business days and don't come back.