Gregory's Server@liampomfret @ionizedgirl @aires You would think. But some of them are horrible. Amazonbot gets stuck on event pages in some weird way. It gets an error, then appends a fragment of the URL to itself and tries again, from multiple IP addresses. I've had to put in rules that look for the pattern and then return a 403, otherwise it just keeps trying. If this thing was a high school coding assignment, it would fail!
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 @liampomfret @alan @ionizedgirl @aires Curious if this is an *Amazon* scraper or if it is someone running on AWS scraping. (can you distinguish between the two? Perhaps Amazon IPs vs AWS IPs) The three party nature of search (indexer needs permission from site), (site needs to want clients of indexer to see it), (user wants an index that contains sites they are interested in) is a really interesting problem.  @ChuckMcManis @liampomfret @ionizedgirl @aires The user agent is a current amazonbot, but that doesn't mean someone isn't spoofing it. I've been blocking that one on a per site/URL basis, so if there's some reason for Amazon to be checking in, they can get in. |
@alan @ionizedgirl @aires Oh, you don't have to tell me how horrible they are. At the end of last month, just one of these bots was nuking my own site at a rate of 35+ accesses a second, sustained 24/7.
If you could DM me a copy of the rules that you've created for that, I'd love to pass them on to my own technical team, and see if that helps make any difference for some of the bots we hadn't yet been able to nail down.