Whoppah is open to AI agents. This page states which automated clients we welcome, what they may read, what is off limits, and how to identify yourself so your traffic is treated as legitimate rather than as an attack. It applies to www.whoppah.com and every localised path under it.
This is a statement of operating policy, not a contract. The binding agreement is our Terms and Conditions. Where this page and robots.txt disagree, robots.txt is authoritative, and we will fix this page.
Four kinds of automated client are welcome, whether they are run commercially or not:
We do not sort operators into approved and unapproved lists. We do sort them by behaviour: an agent that identifies itself honestly and stays within the limits below is welcome, and one that does not will be blocked at the edge. The current allow-list of named AI crawlers lives in robots.txt and is the machine-readable version of this section.
Everything a signed-out visitor can see, you may read, store and cite. Concretely:
When you quote or summarise a listing, link back to the listing URL on whoppah.com. Stock and price change often, and a stale quotation without a link is worse for the buyer than no answer.
Our edge decides whether to serve or throttle a request largely on identity. Make yourself easy to recognise and you will be served.
Unverified automated clients receive a bot verification page instead of site content. It is an interstitial, not a page of this site, and reading it as content produces false conclusions about whoppah.com.
These are the expectations we design for. They are not published as a guaranteed quota, and the edge may tighten them under load. Staying inside them means you will not be throttled.
Start from these files rather than crawling link by link. They are maintained for exactly this purpose.
The Whoppah Commerce MCP server is live at https://mcp.whoppah-agents.com/mcp (streamable HTTP). Reads need no key. It is the supported route to live inventory and a better one than crawling: catalogue search, item detail, similar items, shipping quotes, brands, designers and categories, answered from the same data this site uses at the moment you ask. Only live purchasable listings are served, so sold, reserved and withdrawn items read as not found. Write tools require an allowlisted account and refuse anonymous callers. The terms above apply to it.
Our position is simple: discovery in the agent, checkout on whoppah.com. We are not banning agents that help people shop. We think an assistant that understands a buyer's taste and budget is a good way to find a one-of-a-kind second-hand piece, and second-hand design is a category where good matching matters more than in most of retail.
So an agent is welcome to search the catalogue, read a listing in full, compare pieces across brands and periods, explain condition and provenance, estimate delivery, and hand the buyer a direct link to the listing.
What an agent may not do today is complete the transaction. No automated bidding, no automated offers, and no checkout. Every purchase is finished by the buyer in their own session on whoppah.com. Most of our stock is a single unit with a single photograph set and a negotiated price, so a mistaken automated purchase cannot simply be reordered. Payment, buyer protection and dispute handling all depend on a real accountholder having seen the item and agreed the price.
This will change as agent payment standards mature. When we support a delegated checkout flow, it will run over an authenticated integration with an audit trail, not over automated form filling. If you are building in this area, we would like to hear from you early.
These terms cover automated access to Whoppah, including this site and any agent interface we publish here. They are deliberately short. Using an interface we publish means accepting them.
Nothing here overrides our general terms, and where they conflict, the general terms win. Whoppah terms and conditions
An agent interface returns the same public listing information the website already shows to anyone: the item, its photographs, its condition and price, the category and brand, and the seller's public display name and general location. It is a different way to read the public catalogue, not a wider view of it.
It never returns personal contact details. No email addresses, no telephone numbers, no postal addresses, no payment or account data, and no private messages between buyers and sellers, for either party.
We log request metadata: the time, the calling network address, the interface called and the parameters sent. We use it to run the service, enforce the limits above and investigate abuse. That is operational logging, kept for a limited period. We do not use it to build profiles of the people your agent is acting for, and we do not sell it.
If you pass a person's request through to us, you remain responsible for what you collected from them and on what basis. Whoppah privacy policy
Email support@whoppah.com with 'AI agent access' in the subject line. Tell us who you are, your User-Agent token, where your IP ranges are published, roughly what volume you expect, and what you are building. That routes to the team that owns the edge configuration.