About the Kamp bot

What it is

KampBot is an automated fetcher that reads public summer camp listings from a small number of Bend-area provider websites and writes proposed changes to a review queue. Every proposed change is reviewed by a human in Bend before anything is published on mybasekamp.com.

The bot identifies itself in every request with the User-Agent:

KampBot/1.0 (+https://mybasekamp.com/about-the-bot; bot@mybasekamp.com)

What it does

• Fetches your robots.txt before anything else and respects every rule in it. If you disallow us, we stop.
• Waits at least 5 seconds between requests to any single host. Hard cap of 100 requests per host per day.
• Reads public listing and detail pages only. No logged-in pages, no form submissions, no search-result scraping gymnastics.
• Writes the proposed changes to a review queue. A person in Bend approves, edits, or rejects each one before it reaches the public site.
• Credits you on every camp page with a visible “Source: [provider name with link]” line. Registration links always point back to your site, never to Kamp.

What it doesn’t do

• No email harvesting, no form-filling, no account creation.
• No hammering — the rate limit and per-host daily budget are built into the worker and cannot be bypassed from a config file.
• No republishing behind a paywall. Kamp is free to Bend parents and will stay that way.
• No pretending to be a browser. The User-Agent is always the one above.

Questions

Anything that isn’t a takedown — corrections, partnership questions, “can you also scrape us?” — goes to hello@mybasekamp.com.