You can tune the bot to check recreation.gov as frequently as every 15 seconds, or as slowly as once a day depending on how high-demand the campsite is.
No, absolutely not. Rec TicketBot is strictly an alerting service. When a cancellation occurs, you will receive an immediate notification, but you must manually log into recreation.gov yourself to complete the reservation and pay. The bot does not hold, reserve, or purchase tickets on your behalf.
You will receive an **Immediate Alert email** the second a campsite matching your criteria is found. Additionally, you will receive a **Daily Summary email** every morning at 8:00 AM UTC summarizing the bot's activity from the previous 24 hours.
The bot requires an authenticated session to query the underlying availability APIs repeatedly without being completely rate-limited by recreation.gov's public barriers.