Protect Gitea against scraping bots #609

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raucao · 2025-11-18T13:22:06Z

raucao commented

2025-11-18 13:22:06 +00:00

I think the best tool for the job is Anubis which even specifically supports Gitea. But also seems like a good solution for any other websites that we may run into this problem with.

Background: we had trouble with (AI) scrapers slowing down Gitea to the point of being unavailable over the recent year. I turned our public Mastodon fork to private yesterday, because they loved going through its every single commit, raw file, etc.. Other Git hosters are having the same issue, too.

I think the best tool for the job is [Anubis](https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/) which even specifically supports Gitea. But also seems like a good solution for any other websites that we may run into this problem with. Background: we had trouble with (AI) scrapers slowing down Gitea to the point of being unavailable over the recent year. I turned our public Mastodon fork to private yesterday, because they loved going through its every single commit, raw file, etc.. Other Git hosters are having the same issue, too.

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raucao changed title from ~~Protect Gitea against scaping bots~~ to Protect Gitea against scraping bots

2026-04-11 11:33:52 +00:00

raucao referenced this issue

2026-04-11 11:39:37 +00:00

Slow down Gitea 404s to mess with scrapers/bots #626

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