Internet Archive to New York: Don’t Kill the Good Bots in the Fight Against Bad Bots | Internet Archive Blogs

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I guess Anubis also prevents “good” bots such as search engine bots to access a webpage…

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yes but you can configure anubis to allow specific bots with botPolicy.yaml; the allow-good include already whitelists internet archive.

Can they please add “Dillo/3.2.0”?

look in the crawlers directory and you can add any allows you want with the proper user agent. :)

Nah, that was a joke; Dillo is basicslly a graphical Lynx (both have useragent-exceptions on some big “js-only” sites). And the Anubis dev is, for a while now, working on a static version, if you believe the error message. Though that would be hard to do, if at all possible.

ooh i’m sorry i didn’t catch that <3






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