About Our Crawler

Last updated: June 10, 2026

If you found this page in your server logs, it was via our crawler's User-Agent string: TryoutApp/1.0 (+https://tryout-app-seven.vercel.app/scraper-info).

Who we are

Tryout App (LocalTryouts) is a directory that helps families find youth sports tryouts near them. Our bot visits public club and league pages to discover upcoming tryout events so parents can find them in one place. Every listing we publish links back to the original source page.

What we collect

Org-level tryout event metadata only:

• Organization name (e.g. "Eastside Baseball Club")
• Sport and age group (e.g. soccer, 13U)
• City and state
• Tryout date window
• The public URL we found it on

What we never collect

• Child or player names, or any individual-level data
• Parent or coach contact information
• Photos
• Registration or roster data
• Anything behind a login — we only read public pages

How the bot behaves

• Respects robots.txt
• Maximum 1 request every 2 seconds (0.5 req/s), typically run off-peak
• Stops immediately if your server returns HTTP 429
• Does not crawl platforms whose terms of service prohibit automated access

Opting out

Any site owner can request exclusion and we will comply. Email davesteeves@gmail.com with your domain and we'll remove your listings and stop crawling your site. Adding a robots.txt rule for TryoutApp works too — we honor it.