sprinklz.io blocks and rate-limits AI crawler after heavy traffic
What happened
According to an October 13 report, the developer of sprinklz.io shared the product on Hacker News and the site kept getting slower. Investigation found nearly half the traffic came from a service that scrapes pages at high frequency and generates AI news emails. Endpoint statistics showed most requests did not even try to fetch news articles and did not run the JavaScript needed to render pages. The developer then blocked the service and added robots.txt and rate limiting, while improving infrastructure over the past few weeks to boost site performance. The report does not say what performance changes followed these measures.
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- Hacker News front pageI posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic
sprinklz.io 开发者在 HN 分享产品后，网站持续变慢，排查发现近半流量来自一家高频抓取网页并生成 AI 新闻邮件的服务。端点统计显示，多数请求甚至没有尝试获取新闻文章，也没有运行渲染页面所需的 JavaScript。开发者封禁了该服务，添加 robots.txt 和限流措施，并在过去几周改进基础设施以提升性能。
Heat over time
Not enough continuous observations to draw a trend yet.