yunginnanet/HellPot
HellPot is a cross-platform portal to endless suffering meant to punish unruly HTTP bots. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
49/100
- Activity 58
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 1909
- days_rel: 427
- days_push: 257
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
1147 stars · 55 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
HellPot is a cross-platform HTTP honeypot that punishes bots ignoring robots.txt by streaming an infinite Markov-chain-generated page of pseudo-text. It is built in Go on fasthttp with TOML configuration and JSON logging.
Use cases
- trap and punish misbehaving web crawlers
- tarpit bots that ignore robots.txt
- waste scraper bandwidth on a fake infinite website
- add a honeypot endpoint behind a reverse proxy
- decoy web server for deception defense
When to choose
- you want a lightweight, high-performance honeypot to slow down abusive bots
- you need a cross-platform single binary with simple TOML config
- you want to feed junk content to crawlers that ignore robots.txt
When to avoid
- you need to block or rate-limit bots rather than entangle them
- you cannot afford the bandwidth/CPU cost of infinite streaming responses
- you need a general-purpose web server or WAF
Facets
application · maturity active
http-server security web-scraping security self-hosted web-development windows cross-platform go cli self-hosted honeypot anti-bot tarpit markov-chain fasthttp robots-txt deception linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/yunginnanet/HellPot · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9be2da6ce3e9
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| yunginnanet/HellPot | main | 49 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="yunginnanet/HellPot")
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