About our bot
If you operate a website Rec Rush checks and want to reach us: [email protected]
What it does
Rec Rush checks the availability of recreation programs on city websites — the same publicly accessible program listings anyone can view in a browser without logging in. When a program a user is watching shows an opening, we notify that user so they can register themselves on the official city website.
How it behaves
- Identified: our requests carry a stable User-Agent that names this service and links to this page.
- Rate-limited: each watched program is checked once every few minutes regardless of how many users watch it, with a hard cap on request rates per city and jittered scheduling.
- Backs off: on errors or rate-limit responses we back off exponentially, and a circuit breaker pauses all checking of a city if problems persist.
- Respects robots.txt for the paths we access.
- Public pages only: we never access anything behind a login, and we never automate registrations, carts, or accounts.
If you'd like us to stop
We'd rather hear from you than make you block us. Email [email protected] and we'll pause checking for your site promptly.