[fpc-pascal] Wiki scriping (bis)

Jonas Maebe jonas at freepascal.org
Sun May 11 11:10:44 CEST 2025


Hi,

A new wave of wiki scraping has started using tens of thousands of 
mostly residential IP-addresses from Brazil and China. I added a new 
filter to detect these and it will ban such IP-addresses immediately for 
10 weeks.

It's possible that a normal user could get caught by the access pattern 
used for detecting these. If that happens, I can manually unban you again.

Sorry for the inconvenience. But after banning 45000+ new IP-addresses 
since last night and counting, the server is at least responsive again.

I assume they're using something like 
https://www.scraperapi.com/locations/china-proxies-for-web-scraping/


Jonas


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