We've been experiencing this as well. The fine folks at Mobius can describe our efforts at defense better than I can.

Benjamin Murphy

NC Cardinal Program Manager

State Library of North Carolina

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From: JonGeorg SageLibrary via Evergreen-general <evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 11:52 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group <evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org>
Cc: JonGeorg SageLibrary <jongeorg.sagelibrary@gmail.com>
Subject: [External] [Evergreen-general] Bot issues

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We've been dealing with a lot of bots crawling our catalog, and overwhelming our app servers.

Are any of you having the same issue, and if so what tools are you using to remedy the situation?

We've already implemented geoblocking to limit traffic to the US and Canada, after being overwhelmed by queries from overseas.

I've been looking at bad bot blocker as an option.

-Jon

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