ParkonautBot

ParkonautBot retrieves publicly accessible information about theme parks and attractions for Parkonaut, a theme park tracker.

How to recognise it

It identifies itself with this User-Agent. The product token for matching in robots.txt is ParkonautBot:

ParkonautBot/1.0 (+https://parkonaut.app/bot)

How it behaves

• Before it fetches anything from a host, it loads /robots.txt and applies it as specified in RFC 9309: its own group, otherwise *, including Crawl-delay. If robots.txt is unreachable (network error or 5xx), it fetches nothing from that host.
• It honours reservations against text and data mining and against AI use: the TDM Reservation Protocol (tdm-reservation as HTTP header, as meta tag or in /.well-known/tdmrep.json) and noai in the X-Robots-Tag header or the robots meta tag. A page with such a reservation is not used.
• If a website offers an interface for automated access, it uses that interface and follows its rules.
• It only sends GET requests. It does not submit forms or log in.
• It reads structured data embedded in pages: schema.org markup as JSON-LD (application/ld+json) and Microdata.
• It paces its requests per host and pauses between requests to the same website, longer if Crawl-delay asks for it.
• Where it re-reads a source, it uses conditional requests (If-None-Match, If-Modified-Since) so unchanged content is not downloaded again.
• If a website answers 429 or 503, it waits and retries a few times, then gives up. It honours Retry-After (up to five minutes).

We show the facts it finds together with their source.

How to block it

Add a group for ParkonautBot to your robots.txt. The bot reads it before fetching anything from your host and leaves disallowed paths alone. To exclude it completely:

User-agent: ParkonautBot
Disallow: /

Further reading

• RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion Protocol (IETF)
• JSON-LD 1.1: W3C Recommendation
• Getting started with schema.org: vocabulary and serialisations (JSON-LD, Microdata, RDFa)
• Schema.org Markup Validator: check your structured data
• TDM Reservation Protocol: W3C Community Group Report, not a W3C Standard

Contact

Questions or problems with ParkonautBot? Please contact us using the details in the imprint.