Well this is not what is happening in practice, Wikipedia / Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, OpenFoodFacts... All provide APIs and even a full dump of their database available to download for free, but no, the stupid bots still DDoS them 24h/24.
replyWhy don't they take legal action?
replyHow about a website header with a link to a static zip that contains the whole website in one hit. The Zip could be hosted on some big public sever. Perhaps even mirrored locally for each nation.
replyI have essentially this at work, but the scrapers ignore it. (Or at least many, many scrapers ignore it.)
replythat's hard to do with rendered content, oftentimes the result depends on a backend service. Maybe you should make the service it's running public but that might be a line most aren't willing to cross.
replyI was thinking you scrape your own website every day in the middle of the night when traffic is low, and make that available. They can come and collect it every day if they want to.
replyYeah. Though I guess the point I thought of was like a deals site. That would have infinite pages and content
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