austin-weeks/miasma

Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit. observed · 2026-09-01

github.com/austin-weeks/miasma · Rust · GPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-09-01

Health v2 · maintenance only

82/100

Activity 100
Release rhythm 98
Longevity 12

Flags: young

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: 4.0
age_days: 168
days_rel: 15
days_push: 3
n_releases_24m: 21

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1179 stars · 39 forks observed · 2026-09-01

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Miasma is a lightweight Rust web server that traps AI web scrapers in an endless pit of poisoned training data and self-referential links. It can be run standalone, via Docker, or embedded as a Rust library, and is designed to waste AI crawlers' compute while protecting website content.

Use cases

trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
serve poisoned training data to malicious crawlers
protect a public website from AI training data scraping
tarpit hostile bots with self-referential links
redirect unwanted bot traffic to a honeypot server
waste AI companies' scraping compute with minimal resources

When to choose

you run a public website and want to fight back against AI scrapers
you need an extremely fast, low-memory tarpit for malicious crawlers
you want to embed anti-scraper poisoning into an existing Rust server
you prefer a simple self-hosted tool with Docker support

When to avoid

you only want to politely block bots via robots.txt rather than poison them
you cannot accept the legal or operational risk of serving poisoned content
you need fine-grained per-crawler analytics or allowlisting features
your traffic is legitimate users that must never be misrouted to the trap

Facets

service · maturity active

http-server web-scraping security middleware security privacy web-development crawlers artificial-intelligence windows self-hosted rust cli anti-ai poisoning tarpit crawler-trap anti-scraping gpl-3.0 linux macos docker

2 sources

readme: https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma · fetched 2026-09-01 · ac10d289db98
registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/miasma · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0c5fa1dd253d

Member repositories

Repository	Role	Health v2
austin-weeks/miasma	main	82

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