For website owners
BoopTravelBot
BoopTravelBot is the web reader behind BoopTravel. It reads what hotels publish about pets, slowly and politely.
How to recognise it
It identifies itself with this user agent:
BoopTravelBot/1.0 (+https://booptravel.com/bot)
What it does
- Reads a property’s homepage and up to four pages about pets or policies.
- Keeps only the paragraphs about pets, to show pet fees, limits and rules with a link back to your page.
- Comes back about once a week to see whether the page has changed.
- Doesn’t log in, submit forms or load ads.
How it behaves
- Obeys robots.txt. It follows rules for
BoopTravelBotif you set them, and your*rules otherwise. - 1 request per second per site, at most.
How to opt out
Add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: BoopTravelBot Disallow: /
Or email hello@booptravel.com with your website address and we’ll stop reading it. If you run a listed property, you can also ask us to remove the listing.