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Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots52
traffic, bots, ai, crawling
What Just Happened to TheNumbers.com Should Worry Us All (ste)51
ai, bots, traffic, metrics
Best AI Web Scraping Tools50
ai, tooling, comparisons
Beyond robots.txt: Implementing ai.txt and llms.txt for Purpose-Based Scraping Control49
ai, crawling, llmstxt, comparisons
AI Crawlers Are Eating Your Bandwidth: How Hosting Companies Are Fighting Back48
ai, crawling, traffic, hosting, cloudflare, wp-engine, wordpress, comparisons
The Emerging AI Agents War (jun)47
ai-agents, ai, amazon, perplexity, ecommerce
Artificial Intelligence Companies and the Dark Side of Data Scraping46
ai, ethics, legal, openai, google, facebook+meta, anthropic
10 Python Libraries That Supercharge Web Scraping45
python, libraries, tooling
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers (ema/404)44
ai, bots, tooling
5 Best JavaScript Web Scraping Libraries in 2025 (api)43
javascript, libraries, link-lists
A Thought on JavaScript “Proof of Work” Anti-Scraper Systems (cks)42
javascript, ai
Meet llms.txt, a Proposed Standard for AI Website Content Crawling (sea)41
ai, crawling, llmstxt, robotstxt
Web Scraping With Cheerio in 2025 (api)40
guides, tooling
Web Scraping With Playwright39
playwright, typescript, youtube, functionality
Clean Up HTML Content for Retrieval-Augmented Generation With Readability.js (phi/dat)38
html, tooling, nodejs, rag
How to Scrape Web Content for RAG With Readability.js (phi/dat)37
videos, how-tos, content, rag, ai
Poisoning AI Scrapers36
ai, python
llms.txt35
websites, ai, crawling, llmstxt
Why I Don’t Block AI Scrapers (j9t)34
ai, robotstxt
Websites Are Blocking the Wrong AI Scrapers (Because AI Companies Keep Making New Ones) (404)33
ai, robotstxt
The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable (404)32
ai, robotstxt
AI Unplugged: Rise (and Fall) of the Robots(.txt)31
ai, robotstxt
Investigating Reddit’s robots.txt Cloaking Strategy30
robotstxt, web
Consent, LLM Scrapers, and Poisoning the Well (eri)29
ai, legal
AI Companies Ignoring robots.txt (mjt)28
ai, robotstxt
Let’s Build a Web Scraper in PHP and Python27
php, python
Who Should Block AI Bots? (moz)26
ai, seo
Blockin’ Bots (bee)25
ai, apache, configuration
ai.robots.txt (cor)24
ai, crawling, robotstxt, tooling
Go Ahead and Block AI Web Crawlers (cor)23
robotstxt, crawling, ai
Discovering Web Automation and Scraping (gli)22
automation, bots, tooling
The Text File That Runs the Internet (dav/ver)21
robotstxt, crawling, ai, web
Personal-Scale Web Scraping for Fun and Profit20
javascript, functionality, optimization
Dark Visitors19
websites, ai, robotstxt
Block the Bots That Feed “AI” Models by Scraping Your Website (cla)18
bots, robotstxt, ai
OpenAI Launches Web Crawling GPTBot, Sparking Blocking Effort by Website Owners and Creators (ven)17
ai, openai, crawling, robotstxt
Puppeteer in Node.js: More Antipatterns to Avoid (app)16
nodejs, testing, anti-patterns, puppeteer
Scraping Single-Page Applications With Playwright (api)15
single-page-apps, playwright
Web Scraping—A Complete Guide14
guides
Sophisticated Web Scraping With Bright Data (cra)13
structured-data, apis
Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots12
javascript, memory
Web Scraping Is Legal, US Appeals Court Reaffirms11
legal
Web Scraping With JavaScript and Node.js10
javascript, nodejs
Web Crawling vs. Web Scraping9
crawling, comparisons, terminology
Web Crawler vs. Web Scraper: The Differences8
crawling, comparisons, terminology
No Need to Protect Your Website From Scraping: 8 Reasons7
web, seo, legal
The Ultimate Guide to Building Scalable Web Scrapers With Scrapy (sma)6
guides, tooling, python
Web Scraping With Node.js (sma)5
nodejs, javascript
Using .htaccess to Prevent Web Scraping4
servers, apache
The Rise of Web Bots and Fall in Human Traffic (cra)3
web, bots, spam, traffic, metrics
Web Scraping in Node.js (cji)2
nodejs
Re: Strategy for HTML Spec?1
discussions, web, conformance, html, tooling, python