diff --git a/web/clitools/crawler.php b/web/clitools/crawler.php
index ab1a25b..53904cb 100755
--- a/web/clitools/crawler.php
+++ b/web/clitools/crawler.php
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ if (function_exists('pcntl_signal')) {
 	pcntl_signal(SIGINT,'signalHandler');// Interrupted (Ctrl-C is pressed)
 }
 
-$opts=array(
-	'timeout'=>5,
+$opts=[
+	'timeout'=>10,
 	'deadline'=>60*24*60*60,// if an instance has not been responding for more than this value of seconds (currently 60 days), declare it dead
 	'oldline'=>30*24*60*60,// if an instance has been new for a period longer than this amount (currently 30 days), it's no longer new
 	'ldtoots'=>40,// number of toots to check with the automatic language detection function
@@ -75,8 +75,9 @@ $opts=array(
 	'peersfp'=>null,
 	'dontrestore'=>false,
 	'ignorelock'=>false,
+	'fetchusers'=>false,
 	'moreclauses'=>''
-);
+];
 
 $help='crawler.php
  DESCRIPTION
@@ -92,6 +93,10 @@ $help='crawler.php
    which are already present in the database.
    Note that this option is ignored if the script will recover a previous
    unfinished session.
+  -f, --fetchusers
+   *Currently experimental*: if this option is set, the script will try and
+   fetch users’ profiles infos from each considered instance’s user directory
+   and store them in the database.
   -t, --timeout <seconds>
    Sets the timeout in seconds for every connection attempt.
    DEFAULT: «'.$opts['timeout'].'»
@@ -133,6 +138,10 @@ for ($i=1; $i<$argc; $i++) {
 			$i++;
 			$opts['peersfp']=$argv[$i];
 			break;
+			case '-f':
+			case '--fetchusers':
+			$opts['fetchusers']=true;
+			break;
 			case '-t':
 			case '--timeout':
 			if ($i+1>=$argc || preg_match('/^[0-9]+$/',$argv[$i+1])!==1)
@@ -682,6 +691,65 @@ while ($i<$cinsts) {
 						} else {
 							eecho(2,'could not fetch instance trends from API: '.$buf['emsg'].N);
 						}
+						if ($opts['fetchusers']) {
+							$res=mysqli_query($link,'SELECT ID, locid FROM Users WHERE host=\''.myesc($link,$host).'\'')
+								or mexit(__LINE__.': '.mysqli_error($link).N,3);
+							$uids=[];
+							while ($row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($res)) $uids[$row['locid']]=$row['ID'];
+							print_r($uids);
+							eecho(0,'trying to fetch users info from directory API...'.N);
+							$chunk=0;
+							$limit=80;
+							$end=false;
+							while (!$end) {
+								$offset=$chunk*$limit;
+								$buf=@getfc('https://'.$host.'/api/v1/directory?local=1&order=new&limit='.$limit.'&offset='.$offset,$opts['timeout']);
+								if ($buf['cont']!==false) {
+									ckratelimit($buf['headers']);
+									eecho(1,'got '.($chunk+1).' chunk(s) of users info from directory API :-)'.N);
+									$buf=@json_decode($buf['cont'],true);
+									if (is_array($buf)) {
+										//print_r($buf);
+										if (count($buf)<$limit) $end=true;
+										//foreach ($buf as $user) echo($user['username'].' '); echo(N.N);
+										foreach ($buf as $user) {
+											if (make(['id', 'username', 'display_name', 'locked', 'bot', 'discoverable', 'created_at', 'note', 'url', 'avatar', 'header', 'statuses_count', 'last_status_at', 'fields'], $user)) {
+												if (!isset($user['noindex'])) $user['noindex']=false;
+												if (!is_null($user['created_at'])) $user['created_at']=pgdatetomy($user['created_at']);
+												if (!is_null($user['last_status_at'])) $user['last_status_at']=datetomy($user['last_status_at']);
+												$query='host='.myv($link,$host).', locid='.myv($link,$user['id']).', username='.myv($link,$user['username']).', display_name='.myv($link,$user['display_name']).',  locked='.myv($link,$user['locked']).', bot='.myv($link,$user['bot']).', discoverable='.myv($link,$user['discoverable']).', created_at='.myv($link,$user['created_at']).', note='.myv($link,$user['note']).', url='.myv($link,$user['url']).', avatar='.myv($link,$user['avatar']).', header='.myv($link,$user['header']).', statuses_count='.myv($link,$user['statuses_count']).', last_status_at='.myv($link,$user['last_status_at']).', noindex='.myv($link,$user['noindex']);
+												$do=true;
+												$ures=mysqli_query($link,'SELECT * FROM Users WHERE host=\''.myesc($link,$host).'\' AND locid=\''.myesc($link,$user['id']).'\'')
+													or mexit(__LINE__.': '.mysqli_error($link).N,3);
+												$nr=mysqli_num_rows($ures);
+												if ($nr==0) {
+													$query='INSERT INTO Users SET '.$query;
+												} elseif ($nr==1) {
+													$urow=mysqli_fetch_assoc($ures);
+													//print_r($urow);
+													$query='UPDATE Users SET '.$query.' WHERE ID='.$urow['ID'];
+												} else {
+													$do=false;
+													notify('Table Users contains more than one record with locid='.$user['id'].' and host='.$host,3);
+												}
+												if ($do && !$opts['dryrun']) mysqli_query($link,$query)
+													or mexit(__LINE__.': '.mysqli_error($link).N,3);
+											} else {
+												eecho(2,'user record missed some required keys :-('.N);
+												//print_r($user);
+											}
+										}
+									} else {
+										eecho(2,'... but the chunk was not good JSON :-('.N);
+										$end=true;
+									}
+									$chunk++;
+								} else {
+									eecho(2,'could not fetch users info from directory API: '.$buf['emsg'].N);
+									$end=true;
+								}
+							}
+						}
 					}
 				}
 			} else {
@@ -1062,4 +1130,57 @@ eecho(1,'Done :-)'.N);
 
 exit(0);
 
+// "multi array_key_exists"
+function make($keys,&$arr) {
+	foreach ($keys as $key)
+		if (!array_key_exists($key,$arr))
+			return(false);
+	return(true);
+}
+
+function myv(&$link,$var) {
+	if (is_null($var)) {
+		return('NULL');
+	} elseif (is_bool($var)) {
+		if ($var)
+			return('1');
+		else
+			return('0');
+	} elseif (trim($var)=='') {
+		return('NULL');
+	} else {
+		return('\''.mysqli_real_escape_string($link,$var).'\'');
+	}
+}
+
+function datetomy($date) {
+	$date=explode('-',$date);
+	return(mktime(0,0,0,$date[1],$date[2],$date[0]));
+}
+
+function ckratelimit($httpresphead,$verbose=false) {
+	$headers=explode("\r\n",$httpresphead);
+	$buff=[];
+	array_shift($headers);
+	foreach ($headers as $header)
+		if (preg_match('/^([^:]+):(.*)$/Uu',$header,$matches)===1)
+			$buff[$matches[1]]=trim($matches[2]);
+	$headers=$buff;
+	//print_r($headers);
+	if (array_key_exists('x-ratelimit-reset',$headers)) {
+		//Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:27:22 GMT
+		$srvnow=strtotime($headers['date']);
+		//2022-03-31T04:05:00.058705Z
+		$srvrlr=strtotime($headers['x-ratelimit-reset']);
+		$stosl=$srvrlr-$srvnow+1;
+		if ($verbose) eecho(0,'ckratelimit: x-ratelimit-remaining: '.$headers['x-ratelimit-remaining'].'; $srvnow: '.gmdate('c',$srvnow).'; $srvrlr: '.gmdate('c',$srvrlr).'; current time to sleep: '.$stosl.'.'.N);
+		if ($headers['x-ratelimit-remaining']<3) {
+			eecho(2,'reached rate limit, sleeping for '.$stosl.' seconds ...'.N);
+			sleep($stosl);
+		}
+	} elseif ($verbose) {
+		eecho(2,'ckratelimit: $httpresphead did not contain an «x-ratelimit-reset» header!'.N);
+	}
+}
+
 ?>
diff --git a/web/clitools/maintain/crawl.bash b/web/clitools/maintain/crawl.bash
index b451604..1b9141e 100755
--- a/web/clitools/maintain/crawl.bash
+++ b/web/clitools/maintain/crawl.bash
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ elif [ ! -d "$1" ]; then
 fi
 
 cd "$1"
-MAILCFG="../../mail.conf"
+MAILCFG="../conf/mail.conf"
 LOGF="crawl.log"
 MAILF="mail"
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ function domail {
 function logcmd {
 	init="$(date)"
 	echo "$init: eseguo «$1»" >> $LOGF
-	$1 > $2
+	$1 &> $2
 	ec=$?
 	endt="$(date)"
 	echo -n "$endt: fine esecuzione di «$1»: " >> $LOGF
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ logcmd "php mustool.php updstats" "mustool.updstats.log"
 
 if [ "$2" == "dopeers" ]; then
 	logcmd "php peerscrawl.php -e peerscrawl.exclude -E" "peerscrawl.log"
-	logcmd "php crawler.php -p peers -t 8" "crawler.log"
+	logcmd "php crawler.php -p peers -t 10" "crawler.log"
 else
-	logcmd "php crawler.php -t 8" "crawler.log"
+	logcmd "php crawler.php -t 10" "crawler.log"
 fi
 
 logcmd "php mustool.php shuffle clean optimize" "mustool.shuffle-clean-optimize.log"
diff --git a/web/clitools/peerscrawl.php b/web/clitools/peerscrawl.php
index 6a54014..7d5155c 100755
--- a/web/clitools/peerscrawl.php
+++ b/web/clitools/peerscrawl.php
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ if ($opts['excludedead']) {
 	while ($row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($res))
 		$deadinsts[]=$row['URI'];
 	unset($res);
+	gecho('Loaded list of dead instances ('.count($deadinsts).').'.N,true,false);
 }
 
 /*$contextopts=array(
@@ -403,7 +404,7 @@ function crawl($list,$id) {
 					} elseif (!validhostname($peer)) {
 						gecho('	ERROR: I won’t add «'.$peer.'» to next round list because it’s not a valid hostname.'.N,true,true);
 					} elseif (ckexarr($peer)) {
-						gecho('	NOTICE: I won’t add «'.$peer.'» to next round list because its name matches with an exclusion regex.'.N,true,true);
+						gecho('	NOTICE: I won’t add «'.$peer.'» to next round list because its name matches with an exclusion regex.'.N,true,false);
 					} elseif (in_array($peer,$ainsts)) {
 						if ($opts['verbose'])
 							gecho('	NOTICE: I won’t add «'.$peer.'» to next round list because it’s already in $ainsts.'.N,true,false);
@@ -420,8 +421,7 @@ function crawl($list,$id) {
 							gecho('	NOTICE: I won’t add «'.$peer.'» to next round list because it’s already in $insts.'.N,true,false);
 					}*/
 					} elseif ($opts['excludedead'] && in_array($peer,$deadinsts)) {
-						if ($opts['verbose'])
-							gecho('	NOTICE: I won’t add «'.$peer.'» to next round list because it’s DEAD.'.N,true,false);
+						gecho('	NOTICE: I won’t add «'.$peer.'» to next round list because it’s DEAD.'.N,true,false);
 					} else {
 						//EVVIVA!
 						gecho('	ADDING PEER «'.$peer.'» to next round list.'.N,true,false);
diff --git a/web/site/mustard/include/getfc.php b/web/site/mustard/include/getfc.php
index b11b865..17c1b76 100644
--- a/web/site/mustard/include/getfc.php
+++ b/web/site/mustard/include/getfc.php
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ function getfc($url,$timeout,$headers=[]) {
 	curl_setopt($curli,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,$timeout);
 	curl_setopt($curli,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
 	curl_setopt($curli,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,$headers);
+	curl_setopt($curli,CURLOPT_HEADER,true);
 	$cont=curl_exec($curli);
+	$headers_sz=curl_getinfo($curli,CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
+	$headers=substr($cont,0,$headers_sz);
+	$cont=substr($cont,$headers_sz);
 	$emsg=false;
 	$cerrno=curl_errno($curli);
 	if ($cerrno) {
@@ -24,7 +28,7 @@ function getfc($url,$timeout,$headers=[]) {
 		$emsg='unknown';
 	}
 	curl_close($curli);
-	return(array('cont'=>$cont,'emsg'=>$emsg));
+	return(['cont'=>$cont,'headers'=>$headers,'emsg'=>$emsg]);
 }
 
 ?>