For record shops

How shops get listed, what is read from their site, and how to update or opt out.

LP/EP Finder sends buyers to independent record shops: every record links to the shop’s own page, and the sale happens there. It’s free, for shops and buyers.

Get listed

Suggest your shop (a short form on GitHub), or ask a regular to do it. New shops are also found on OpenStreetMap and Record Store Day lists every month.

• Shopify and WooCommerce shops get their whole catalog searchable: we read the public catalog these platforms publish for every shop.
• Other shops are listed with a link, and become searchable as more platforms are supported.

What we read

Once a day, slowly (one request at a time, pauses between pages), our crawler LPEPFinderBot reads the public catalog: title, price, currency, stock, image and product link. Nothing else: no customer data, no orders, no checkout. It respects robots.txt.

Update or opt out

• Wrong name, country or city? Open an issue, or edit data/shops/<your-domain>.json in a pull request.
• Opt out: block LPEPFinderBot in your robots.txt, or ask in an issue: the shop is removed at the next daily update.