Simon Willison developed a new plugin for Datasette called datasette-ip-rate-limit to mitigate traffic from aggressive web crawlers. This plugin, partially built with assistance from OpenAI's GPT-5.5 xhigh model, allows for configurable rate limiting to block IPs exceeding specified request thresholds within a given time window. The configuration includes options for identifying client IP addresses, setting maximum keys, exempting certain paths, and defining rules for specific site areas. AI
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IMPACT This plugin helps manage traffic for web services, potentially improving stability and performance by filtering out problematic crawler activity.
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