A developer describes implementing smart anti-crawler measures on their personal code hosting server to combat excessive bot traffic while minimizing impact on real users. The solution includes challenge-based verification, caching strategies, and behavior analysis to identify and filter out automated crawlers.

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/humanely-dealing-with-humungus-crawlers

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