#crawlers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #crawlers, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://social.edu.nl/@wlaatje/116970826745820091
"The web is full of independent archives, hobby databases, local news sites, forums, reference works. Decades of accumulated human effort, running on old code, maintained by small teams or single individuals, quietly holding up far more of our shared knowledge than anyone acknowledges."
And proponents of so-called 'AI' are speedrunning their destruction.
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I like the new single from Crawlers.
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/cool/6781042262?i=6781042263
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7BKTCgTQvXFBdCDBtODvQc
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Win one of the TEN copies of Vampire Crawlers game by Poncle in #js13k 2026!
https://js13kgames.com/2026/prizes#vampirecrawlers
#gamedev #gamedevjs #Poncle #Vampire #Crawlers #VampireCrawlers #Poncle #Games
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ICYMI: AI crawlers hit sites 50,000 times per human visit, Cloudflare data shows: AI crawlers reach up to 50,000 visits per referred reader, Cloudflare data shows, as a Munich court strips Google of its liability shield over AI Overviews. https://ppc.land/ai-crawlers-hit-sites-50-000-times-per-human-visit-cloudflare-data-shows/ #AI #Crawlers #DataAnalysis #Cloudflare #Google
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#Development #Launches
ua-tracer · Inspect what a user agent actually does https://ilo.im/16e91f_____
#UserAgents #Crawlers #AI #Websites #Development #WebDev #Frontend #CSS #JavaScript #Backend -
#Design #Inspirations
This page left intentionally blank · “In our age of generative AI, a blank page is a deliberate act!” https://ilo.im/16e912_____
#Print #Content #Websites #Blogs #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #AI #Crawlers #UxDesign #WebDesign -
#Cloudflare gives #AI #crawlers a September deadline: pay publishers or get blocked - https://thenextweb.com/news/cloudflare-block-ai-crawlers-pay-publishers "From 15 September, Cloudflare will block crawlers that harvest content for AI training from any page carrying ads, unless the owner opts in, and pay publishers when their work shapes an AI answer. "
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ICYMI: Microsoft Clarity now flags robots.txt violations inside Bot Analytics: Microsoft Clarity now surfaces robots.txt violations in Bot Analytics, showing publishers which AI crawlers break access rules and what content they target. https://ppc.land/microsoft-clarity-now-flags-robots-txt-violations-inside-bot-analytics/ #MicrosoftClarity #BotAnalytics #SEO #WebAnalytics #Crawlers
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#Business #Guides
What server logs reveal that SEO tools miss · How to uncover hidden SEO issues at scale https://ilo.im/16dm9u_____
#Google #Bing #SEO #SearchEngines #Crawlers #LogFiles #WebAnalytics #Development #WebDev #Backend -
ICYMI: New York passes bill forcing AI crawlers to identify themselves to news sites: New York's Assembly passed A11292 on June 5, 2026, requiring AI crawlers to disclose identity and purpose to news publishers or face $15,000-per-day penalties. https://ppc.land/new-york-passes-bill-forcing-ai-crawlers-to-identify-themselves-to-news-sites/ #NewYork #AI #Crawlers #News #Legislation
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#Business #Reports
Bots have overtaken humans on the internet · “The open web is now being swamped by AI agents.” https://ilo.im/16dlpj_____
#Bots #Crawlers #WebTraffic #WebAnalytics #AI #Websites #Development #WebDev #Frontend #Backend -
#Anti #AI #Software / #Website Protection / AI #poison
https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/
iocaine features:
> No sympathy towards #crawlers
Stand in the way of AI but not your visitors
> Lightweight = Very little #CPU and #RAM
Tries its best to require little resources from your visitors too.
If you can serve #static content, you'll be able to run #iocaine too.
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"Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the #InternetArchive’s ability to access and preserve their stories.
Researchers, historians, and citizens around the world rely on the web archives of #localnews sites to do their work.
“Blocking the Internet Archive’s web #crawlers threatens one of the most effective ways that we capture and store news content for the long term.”"
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Crawlers – Roadside Attractions and Saban Films pick up the new spider-infested horror film. Details here https://www.liveforfilm.com/2026/05/04/crawlers-roadside-attractions-and-saban-films-pick-up-the-new-spider-infested-horror-film/
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Spider-Horror Pic ‘Crawlers’ Acquired By Roadside Attractions & Saban Films
#Acquisitions #News #Crawlers #RoadsideAttractions #SabanFilmshttps://deadline.com/2026/04/crawlers-roadside-attractions-1236877140/
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Blocking AI crawlers cost news publishers 7% of traffic, study finds: A Wharton and Rutgers study finds news publishers who blocked LLM crawlers lost 7% of weekly traffic in 6 weeks, with no measurable content protection gains. https://ppc.land/blocking-ai-crawlers-cost-news-publishers-7-of-traffic-study-finds/ #AI #crawlers #NewsPublishers #TrafficLoss #ContentProtection
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We're live!
Avali Week AND 420? Hell yeah!
$145 flat colors and $25 crawlers!
See ya there! -
Oh look even more crawlers lmao
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#Development #Explainers
Inside Googlebot · How Google’s crawl system decides which content gets indexed https://ilo.im/16btho_____
#Business #Google #SearchEngine #SEO #Crawlers #Content #RobotsTxt #Development #WebDev #Frontend -
Quo Vadis, Crawlers? Progress and what’s next on safeguarding our infrastructure https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/26/quo-vadis-crawlers-progress-and-whats-next-on-safeguarding-our-infrastructure/ #AI, #AIDataCrawlers, #Crawlers, #Infrastructure, #Knowledge, #KnowledgeAsAService, #Scraping, #ScrapingBots, #WebScraping, #WikimediaFoundation, #WikimediaProjects
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Fresh on my #blog: "There's a difference between 'scraping' and 'retrieving'". I have a dilemma; one is extractive, the other accessibility. What do I do?
#ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #crawlers #ethics #AIethics
thomasrigby.com/posts/theres-a-difference-between-scraping-and-retrieving/
