Slacker News Slacker News logo featuring a lazy sloth with a folded newspaper hat
  • top
  • new
  • show
  • ask
  • jobs
Library
← Back to context

Comment by grishka

8 hours ago

It's different. I'm fine with someone scraping my website as a good citizen, by identifying themselves in their user-agent string and preferably respecting robots.txt. I'm not, however, fine with tens of requests per second to every possible URL from random IPs I'm receiving right now, all pretending to be different old versions of Chrome.

0 comments

grishka

Reply

No comments yet

Contribute on Hacker News ↗

Slacker News

Product

  • API Reference
  • Hacker News RSS
  • Source on GitHub

Community

  • Support Ukraine
  • Equal Justice Initiative
  • GiveWell Charities