Overview
ProperPicsBot is a crawler operated by ProperPics for collecting limited published business contact details from approved public estate-agency websites.
It identifies as ProperPicsBot/1.0 (+https://properpics.co.za/legal/bot) and uses ProperPicsBot for robots.txt matching.
The operator states that the crawler reads robots.txt before fetching, honors Crawl-delay, and stops when robots.txt cannot be read or parsed.
Because its purpose is business-contact collection and prospecting rather than search indexing or user retrieval, Botcrawl classifies it with Caution and leaves the site-owner action context-dependent.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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ProperPicsBot - Aliases
- ProperPicsBot/1.0
- HTTP Agent Examples
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ProperPicsBot/1.0 (+https://properpics.co.za/legal/bot) - Robots Token
- ProperPicsBot
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the exact `ProperPicsBot` token to current operator documentation and corroborate source and crawl behavior before trusting the claim.
Classification
- Type
- Scraper
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- ProperPics
- Purpose
- Business contact prospecting
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Collects published estate-agent business contact details for a one-time prospecting consent request.
- Detection Notes
- Detect by `ProperPicsBot`. The documented crawler is limited to pre-approved public estate-agency domains and reads robots.txt before crawling.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- The user-agent can be copied; use source and behavior evidence for stronger verification.
- Risk
- Caution
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: ProperPicsBot Disallow: / - Apache Rule
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "ProperPicsBot" [NC] RewriteRule ^ - [F,L] - Nginx Rule
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if ($http_user_agent ~* "ProperPicsBot") { return 403; }
Relationships
- Operator
- ProperPics Checked 2026-09-02
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.