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chirau
on June 11, 2020
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A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day ...
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.
jandrese
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A well made crawler that would support 429 codes isn't likely to have this problem in the first place.
klohto
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> HTTP 429 -> ignored
It's in the article
napolux
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I tried. It was ignored.
gramakri
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It says in the post he did this already
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