Post Az2PYx0hyRsHq0olXM by dave@podcastindex.social
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(DIR) Post #Az2Bov7xLPO5GxvdkO by dave@podcastindex.social
2025-10-09T13:42:46Z
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I block AI bots from Podcast Index as best I can using CF, but part of me wants to detect them and instead send them down a rabbit hole of auto-generated slop pages. Just shovel as much garbage into them as possible.
(DIR) Post #Az2BqH2tL1FPXaCmW0 by dave@podcastindex.social
2025-10-09T13:43:02Z
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AI Tar Pitting.
(DIR) Post #Az2DDC7XumLEsfsLEe by ericpp@podcastindex.social
2025-10-09T13:58:21Z
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@dave How are the bots getting access to the API? Or is this the main Podcast Index page?
(DIR) Post #Az2LaTdzjF0FWRfM6C by dave@podcastindex.social
2025-10-09T15:32:13Z
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@ericpp Yeah, they try to crawl the main site.
(DIR) Post #Az2Ldyi4gQCijwFB5M by podcastguru@podcastindex.social
2025-10-09T15:32:50Z
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@dave Haha, been there. There's even a python library for this:https://pypi.org/project/Faker/
(DIR) Post #Az2Onubj5fFsm6hdku by ericpp@podcastindex.social
2025-10-09T16:08:16Z
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@dave Could add a PoW challenge to the main site API.
(DIR) Post #Az2PYx0hyRsHq0olXM by dave@podcastindex.social
2025-10-09T16:16:46Z
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@podcastguru 😮
(DIR) Post #Az2TALV4BVaOMtXZia by alecksgates@podcastindex.social
2025-10-09T16:57:08Z
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@dave @podcastguru Faker is a great library.
(DIR) Post #Az6b4YJ3EdGuc8VayW by podcastguru@podcastindex.social
2025-10-11T16:44:33Z
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@dave Someone has been trying to scrape us for the past day or so, but they haven't figured out they are being rate limited. Amatuers. 😆