To keep #OpenStreetMap.org up and running while we're being deluged by scrapers, we've blocked 320,000+ primarily residential IPv4 addresses in the last 24 hours (+ 100,000 IPv6) involved in scraping.
If you need OSM data, please don't scrape the website - use the official downloads at https://planet.openstreetmap.org
🙏🌍 #AI #Bots #Abuse
@osm_tech sounds familiar, last year I braved turning cloudflares "under attack" mode off for https://dnshistory.org/ and saw an extra 5 million requests/day (500k unique IPs) overloading things. It's still blocking >700k requests/day a month later...