# Teraco (`teraco`)

Domain: www.teraco.co.za · Kind: operator · Priority: 2 · Enabled: yes
License / attribution: Publicly accessible operator pages; factual data only; © Teraco (a Digital Realty company) — attribution “Teraco”
Coverage: ZA

# What it collects

Facility records (kind: facility) via parser(s) teraco_facility_v1 in apps/worker/src/connectors/operators2/apac.ts.

Fields published by the pages and captured: one record per facility block: name, code(s), campusName, address, city, countryIso2, lat/lng (exact, GPS row), buildingSqm (white space), itCapacityMw (IT load).

Every field carries an extraction method in methods (e.g. json-ld:PostalAddress, regex:it_mw_v1, attr:data-value+MW, lookup:city-country) for provenance. Coordinates are only taken from JSON-LD / embedded JSON / map links published by the operator — never geocoded. Status defaults to operational unless the page uses pipeline wording (under construction / coming soon / planned).

# Discovery

Sitemaps: https://www.teraco.co.za/page-sitemap.xml, https://www.teraco.co.za/post-sitemap.xml
Include: /data-centre-locations/[a-z-]+/$, /news/, /press-releases?/
Exclude: \?, #
Classify: /data-centre-locations/[a-z-]+/$ → facility_pages (facility_page); /(news|press-releases?)/. → newsroom (press_release)

Newsroom URLs (when configured) rely on the GenericConnector news fallback (press_release → news_event when data-center relevant).

# Schedule & fetch

Schedule: facility_pages weekly, newsroom daily, sitemap weekly
Fetch: L1→L2, 15 rpm, concurrency 2, robots.txt respected, max 20 premium credits/run. All pages are served at L1 (plain HTTP); maxLevel is capped at 2 so false-positive “blocked” heuristics (HubSpot / cookie-consent strings) never spend Scrapfly credits.

# Quirks

Metro pages /data-centre-locations// contain one block per facility (code JB1+JB3+JB5, campus, white space SQM, IT load MW, street address) → one record per block.

# Verification (live, 2026-09-11)

try-connector --limit N: discovered 91 URLs (facility_pages=3, newsroom=88); sampled pages → 6 entities, 6 valid, 0 rejected, 0 premium credits.