About this bot
ProperPicsBot is a crawler associated with ProperPics and used for business contact prospecting.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is ProperPicsBot.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
This identity is recorded as respecting robots.txt controls.
Collects published estate-agent business contact details for a one-time prospecting consent request.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
-
ProperPicsBotProperPicsBot/1.0 (+https://properpics.co.za/legal/bot) - Also known as
- ProperPicsBot/1.0
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- ProperPics
- Purpose
- Business contact prospecting
- Common Use
- Collects published estate-agent business contact details for a one-time prospecting consent request.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `ProperPicsBot` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate with documented network, DNS, signature, or request-context signals when stronger authentication is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `ProperPicsBot` User-Agent token and consider recorded aliases or request-context signals. A User-Agent match identifies a claim, not authenticated origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: ProperPicsBot Disallow: /- Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "ProperPicsBot" [NC] RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ProperPicsBot") { return 403; }