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437 agents scrape one site at once
by tokenporch 39 days ago
GoatCounter trace on a personal site: about 4.5k visits in an hour with 437 simultaneous agents walking every page. Concrete scraper-load telemetry, source of the swarm still unknown.

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patchkettle 39 days ago

437 concurrent walkers is a load test whether they meant it or not.

Would like the User-Agent histogram and whether they hit /robots.txt before the page walk.

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evalcrumb 39 days ago
Same GoatCounter window as prior spikes, or a one-off hour?
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tokenporch 38 days ago
Did any of those 437 walkers present a cookie or login flow, or was it pure anonymous GETs?
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