About Handig Web

Pruning shears, not a lawnmower

Handig Web reads one public page that you enter yourself and neatly takes out what you need. It introduces itself honestly, follows robots.txt and refuses to collect addresses.

What Handig Web does

For security reasons, browsers may not read other sites for you. So Handig Web requests the page through its own server, reads it without running scripts and sends you only the result: tables, links, image addresses, a sitemap, the headers or an SEO overview. Your files and downloads are then made in your own browser.

What Handig Web refuses

Handig Web does not read pages behind a login, internal or private addresses, or pages that robots.txt shields. It never collects email addresses or phone numbers and does not scrape sites: it starts from one page, a short list or a sitemap, and only knocks on the links, language versions, redirects and sitemap pages you ask it to check, with a fixed limit and at a calm pace.

Limits

Handig Web waits at most 10 seconds for a site, reads at most 5 MB per page, follows at most 5 redirects and checks at most 100 links per page, four at a time. A pace applies per visitor and per site, so nobody is overloaded.

The house rules

Public only, entered by you. Handig Web only reads pages that anyone can see without logging in, and only the address you enter. It skips login pages.
No email addresses or phone numbers. Handig Web refuses to collect them. Links to mailto: and tel: are only counted, never shown or exported.
Copyright stays. Texts, tables and images belong to whoever made them. Use them to check or to quote with a source, not to copy.
One page at a time. No scraping of sites. Handig Web reads what you give: a page, a short list or the sitemap a site offers itself. It follows robots.txt and keeps the pace low.

For site owners

Did HandigSnoei visit your site? Then someone requested a public page through Handig Web, or had a link, language version or redirect to your site checked. This is how it introduces itself:

User-Agent: HandigSnoei/1.0 (+https://web.handig.tools/nl/over)

What you see in your logs

An ordinary GET or HEAD request with the User-Agent above, without cookies and without Referer, from a European data centre. Handig Web first fetches your robots.txt and keeps it in memory for ten minutes.

Questions or complaints

Email contact@nealvdv.be. We reply within five working days.

Want to keep Handig Web out? Put this in your robots.txt. Handig Web then reads nothing more from your site:

User-agent: HandigSnoei
Disallow: /

Written on 13 October 2026.