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Comment by Micanthus

10 hours ago

The page specifically says it's okay for bots to scrape from Anna's Archive, she just asks they do it in bulk to not overload the servers:

"""

> We are a non-profit project with two goals:

> 1. Preservation: Backing up all knowledge and culture of humanity.

> 2. Access: Making this knowledge and culture available to anyone in the world (including robots!).

[. . .]

  * Our website has CAPTCHAs to prevent machines from overloading our resources, but all our data can be downloaded in bulk:

  * All our HTML pages (and all our other code) can be found in our [GitLab repository](https://software.annas-archive.gl/).

  * All our metadata and full files can be downloaded from our [Torrents page](/torrents), particularly `aa_derived_mirror_metadata`.
  
  * All our torrents can be programatically downloaded from our [Torrents JSON API](https://annas-archive.gl/dyn/torrents.json).

"""