TecharoHQ/anubis

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Anubis is a Go-based web proxy middleware that weighs the 'soul' of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work challenges to block AI crawlers and bots. It sits in front of websites and lets legitimate browser users through while filtering automated scrapers.

Use cases

• block AI crawlers from scraping my website
• stop bots from hammering my self-hosted server
• add a proof-of-work challenge to incoming HTTP requests
• protect open-source project forges from aggressive scrapers
• filter automated traffic without a paid CDN
• reduce server load from AI training data collection

When to choose

• you self-host a web service being scraped by AI bots
• you want a lightweight, self-hosted alternative to Cloudflare bot protection
• you can tolerate a brief JavaScript/proof-of-work check for human visitors

When to avoid

• you need to allow API clients or non-browser automated access
• your users include browsers without JavaScript
• you need full WAF/DDoS protection rather than crawler filtering

Facets

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security middleware http-server rate-limiting proxy security web-development self-hosted developer-tools self-hosted go anti-bot ai-crawler-blocking proof-of-work reverse-proxy scraper-defense linux docker web-server

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