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I think sending back a `429 Too Many Requests` can solve this. Unless you want to block their IPs completely, which I doubt you'd want to do.


A well made crawler that would support 429 codes isn't likely to have this problem in the first place.


> HTTP 429 -> ignored

It's in the article


I tried. It was ignored.


It says in the post he did this already




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