KampreneurBot - Crawler disclosure
Last updated: 17 April 2026
What KampreneurBot does
KampreneurBot is an automated web crawler operated by Kampreneur (kampreneur.co.za), a free, bilingual South African directory of camping, caravan, 4x4 and outdoor businesses.
The crawler visits publicly accessible South African business directory websites to discover camping and outdoor businesses that may not yet be listed on Kampreneur. It reads publicly visible business information - name, address, phone number, website, and description - and creates a draft listing so that business owners can find and claim their own entry.
KampreneurBot does not access pages that require login, bypass paywalls, or collect personal data about individuals. It only processes information that business owners have chosen to make publicly available.
Rate limits and crawl behaviour
- Maximum 1 request per second per host, with a minimum 2-second delay plus random jitter between requests.
- KampreneurBot fully respects
robots.txtdirectives. If your site disallows crawling viaDisallow: /or aUser-agent: KampreneurBotrule, the crawler will not visit. - Crawls run at most once per month per source. Content hashes are compared before any data is updated, so unchanged pages do not trigger writes.
- Images are downloaded once and re-hosted locally - we do not hot-link your images.
- All requests carry a
Crawl-Delay-aware implementation and honour429 Too Many Requestsand503 Service Unavailableback-off signals.
User-Agent string
All KampreneurBot requests use the following User-Agent header:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; KampreneurBot/1.0; +https://kampreneur.co.za/bot)
You can use this string to identify and block KampreneurBot in your server logs
or robots.txt.
Blocking KampreneurBot
Add the following to your robots.txt to prevent KampreneurBot from
crawling your site:
User-agent: KampreneurBot Disallow: /
We check robots.txt before every crawl run. Entries take effect within
24 hours of our next scheduled run.
How to request removal
If a listing on Kampreneur contains incorrect information about your business, or you would like your business removed entirely, please use our takedown request form.
We aim to respond within 24 hours. Once a takedown is actioned, the listing is permanently removed and the source URL is added to our blacklist so it will not be re-imported in future crawl runs.
You can also contact us directly at [email protected] for crawler-related queries.
Interaksienasporing
Ons teken anonieme interaksies (besigtigings, oproepe, WhatsApp-klikke, webwerkklikke) aan op elke besigheidsnotering - opgeeis en nie-opgeeis - vir ontleding. Ons hash jou IP-adres en blaaieridentifiseerder met 'n daaglikse roterende sout - ons stoor nooit die rou waardes nie, en ons kan jou nie uit hierdie data identifiseer nie. Die hashes roteer elke 24 uur. Eienaars van opgeeste noterings sien slegs geaggregeerde tellings.
Attribution and imported listings
All listings imported by KampreneurBot are marked "Imported from public sources" and include a link to the original source URL. Business owners can claim their listing at any time via the claim flow - once claimed, the imported label is removed and the owner controls all content.