# yunginnanet/HellPot

HellPot is a cross-platform portal to endless suffering meant to punish unruly HTTP bots.

Repository: https://github.com/yunginnanet/HellPot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hellpot
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: honeypot, http, web, deception, stress, cross-platform, fasthttp, flood, markov-chain, spam, web-server, heffalump
Last push: 2025-12-19T22:02:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 49/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 58, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1909, "days_push": 257, "days_rel": 427, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1147, forks 55 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:45.708208+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: http-server, security, web-scraping
- domain: security, self-hosted, web-development
- platform: windows, cross-platform, go, cli, self-hosted
- tags: honeypot, anti-bot, tarpit, markov-chain, fasthttp, robots-txt, deception, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- yunginnanet/HellPot (main) score 49

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:45.708208+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:34:04.429664+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/yunginnanet/HellPot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:45.708208+00:00, sha 9be2da6ce3e9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.