RV Travel: Are "Bots" Stealing Your Campsite?

Above, I had to reserve this Yosemite campsite six months earlier right when the "window"
opened, otherwise, all sites would have been booked up within seconds. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

To date, I have not had any problems in reserving a campsite online. But others have and apparently it is becoming a problem.

RV Travel has an article on "bots" that are "stealing" campsites. 

They begin it with:

If you’ve tried to book a camping reservation online at popular locations in the past five years, you’ve likely been stymied by a camping bot. [Editor: A bot is a software application that runs automated tasks over the internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are simple and repetitive, much faster than a person could. —Wikipedia]

Bots are ingenious little bits of computer code that allow a user’s computer to flood a reservation site with campsite requests. It all happens fast – a typical reservation bot can complete a purchase in .02 of a second. Good luck typing fast enough to keep up with that.

You’ve likely used a bot yourself. Bots are used on travel sites like Kayak or Expedia. They scour the internet, looking for the best prices on hotels, airfare and rental cars. When you are researching your next trip on those sites, you are the beneficiary of a bot.

To read more, go here.