TecharoHQ/anubis
Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 14 days ago, with 195 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #19 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 22, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a web AI firewall that challenges incoming HTTP requests to block AI-powered scraper bots.
- Offers a lightweight, configurable defense against AI crawlers without relying on third-party services like Cloudflare.
- Use for protecting small websites or communities from excessive AI-driven scraping traffic.
- Use for enforcing custom bot policies to allowlist trusted bots while blocking unknown or malicious scrapers.
- Use for securing web resources in environments where traditional CDN-based protections are not feasible.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Anubis is a Web AI Firewall Utility that weighs the soul of your connection using one or more challenges in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots.
This program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies. Anubis is as lightweight as possible to ensure that everyone can afford to protect the communities closest to them.
Anubis is a bit of a nuclear response. This will result in your website being blocked from smaller scrapers and may inhibit "good bots" like the Internet Archive. You can configure bot policy definitions to explicitly allowlist them and we are working on a curated set of "known good" bots to allow for a compromise between discoverability and uptime.
In most cases, you should not need this and can probably get by using Cloudflare to protect a given origin. However, for circumstances where you can't or won't use Cloudflare, Anubis is there for you.
If you want to try this out, visit the Anubis documentation site at anubis.techaro.lol.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+2,719 stars over 89 days across 23 snapshot days; best day +75 on Sep 7.
Forks
812+135
Open issues
412+66
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| TecharoHQ/anubis | 24.0K | — | 64 | 14 days ago |
| Category median | 39.9K | +422 | 75 | — |
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