To everyone in the United States, Happy Independence Day and Happy AIndependence Day to everyone else.

In the spirit of staying ahead of the game and ensuring our online security, I came across this article by Cloudflare, Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click.

I’m already using Cloudflare on several domains, and I enabled the AI Scrapers and Crawlers blocking features on Django Packages, Django News Jobs, and several websites I managed.

If you wrote a scraper for Django Packages and are impacted by this change, contact me, and let’s talk. We have an API, a better solution than spidering the website.