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Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers

80 mentions on Hacker News by 67 people: 8 stories, 72 comments · first 2025-03-18 · latest 2026-10-18

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  1. Something like https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis ? It's not that different from CF, but you control it fully.
    comment by Wilder7977 · 2025-07-03 · in Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
  2. …to think of a web related library that has spread faster than Anubis checker. It's everywhere now! https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis I'm surprised we don't see more efforts to rate limit. I assume many of these are distributed crawlers,…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-07-02 · in Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
  3. …of anubis tries to detect bots and changes the difficulty of the proof of work based on that. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/data/botPolici...
    comment by vhcr · 2025-06-25 · in Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet
  4. …that solves the mentioned antispam problem. For almost everyone, Anubis does its job as intended. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by x-complexity · 2025-05-29 · in A thought on JavaScript "proof of work" anti-scraper systems
  5. …instance, traffic on it fell by 97%[3]. [1] - https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away [2] - https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis [3] - https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by... : " According to Bart Piotrowski, in…
    comment by ArinaS · 2025-05-15 · in Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative
  6. From looking at some of the rules like https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/data/bots/head... it seems that Anubis explicitly punishes bots that are "honest" about their user agent - I might be missing something, but isn't this…
    comment by Tiberium · 2025-05-02 · in Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack
  7. …ask nicely to not change out the images shipped as a whitelabel service is planned in the future https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/204#issuecomment-27...
    comment by unsnap_biceps · 2025-05-01 · in Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack
  8. …or respectful to other peoples' resources, then people have the right to deny them to you. [0] https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by ujkhsjkdhf234 · 2025-04-27 · in Wikipedia: Database Download
  9. see https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/16 There is going to be a pretty big refactor soon, but once that's done we plan on crushing this out.
    comment by JsonCameron · 2025-04-15 · in Anubis Works
  10. …However, for circumstances where you can't or won't use Cloudflare, Anubis is there for you. [1]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/
    comment by AnonC · 2025-04-13 · in Anubis Works
  11. It appears they're using https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis for the proof of work proxy
    comment by unsnap_biceps · 2025-04-02 · in Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers
  12. I believe that's what this project aims to do: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by surfaceofthesun · 2025-04-02 · in Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
  13. mandatory link: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis It's an interesting project, I wish there would be better ways to do that, but I guess we are on war with crawlers for a while already.
    comment by szszrk · 2025-04-02 · in Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
  14. I'm working on scraper bot filtering software! https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis . This week I'm going to publish the plans for building binary packages (both distribution-specific packages and tarballs full of binaries).
    comment by xena · 2025-03-31 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
  15. Anubis (or something similar) is an alternative option: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis Aside from the obvious disadvantages of a non-anoynmous web I also don't even think it will work. How do you deal with identification and…
    comment by reginald78 · 2025-03-26 · in AI bots are destroying Open Access
  16. Noted! I filed a bug: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/38 All of this is placeholder wording, layouts, CSS, and more. It'll be fixed in time. This is teething pain that I will get through.
    comment by xena · 2025-03-20 · in FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
  17. …interesting for combatting this problem, a (non-crypto) proof-of-work challenge for new visitors https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis Looks like the GNOME Gitlab instance implements it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME
    comment by parliament32 · 2025-03-20 · in I fear for the unauthenticated web
  18. …(for humans) what we're supposed to do and what is happening when met by that page? Will do! https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/25
    comment by xena · 2025-03-20 · in FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
  19. Hi! I do this! See https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis for more info!
    comment by xena · 2025-03-20 · in FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
  20. …surreal to see my project in the preview image like this. That's wild! If you want to try it: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis . So far I've noticed that it seems to actually work. I just deployed it to xeiaso.net as a way to see how it…
    comment by xena · 2025-03-20 · in FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
  21. That's what I've been doing! It works shockingly well. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by xena · 2025-03-20 · in FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
  22. You're likely thinking of Anubis from Techaro: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
    comment by gmemstr · 2025-03-18 · in Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face