Quixotic – a tool for wasting bot and LLM scraper time

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I get a lot of bot traffic, most of which doesn't appear to respect robots.txt, so I made a tool to easily rewrite my content to serve to these bots instead. It consists of two components:quixotic - a command line tool that is static-site friendly to generate a copy of a website with some of the words replaced using a Markov generator.linkmaze - a web server that I can send the worst bots to. It generates 100% Markov content on the fly and with random links that also refer to linkmaze content.

Quixotic – a tool for wasting bot and LLM scraper time is positioned in show hn launch, a segment that rewards a clear, focused offering.

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Website: marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html