anubis
by TecharoHQ
Anubis is a lightweight Web AI Firewall that uses challenge-based assessments to block AI-powered scraper bots from accessing your web resources.
Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers
Primary Use Case
Anubis is designed for website operators and API providers who want to protect their resources from automated scraping and AI crawler traffic without relying on large third-party services like Cloudflare. It is especially useful for small communities or sites that need a cost-effective, configurable bot mitigation solution to maintain uptime and control access.
- Challenge-based bot detection to weigh the 'soul' of incoming HTTP requests
- Configurable bot policy definitions for allowlisting known good bots
- Lightweight and resource-efficient design
- Protection focused on mitigating AI crawler and scraper bot traffic
- Open source with active sponsor and donor support
- Web AI Firewall utility to protect upstream resources
- Provides a compromise between discoverability and uptime
- Supports manual configuration for bot policies
- Integrate Anubis with existing WAFs to enhance bot mitigation capabilities without heavy resource consumption.
- Use Anubis challenge-response logs to tune bot policies and reduce false positives on legitimate traffic.
- Deploy Anubis in front of API endpoints to reduce scraping and data exfiltration risks from automated AI crawlers.
- Combine Anubis with behavioral analytics tools to improve detection of sophisticated bot patterns over time.
- Leverage Anubis’ lightweight design for small community websites to maintain uptime while enforcing bot controls cost-effectively.
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