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Attack from spbot OpenLinkProfiler.org

Today I received a massive 1,000 line scraper attack from spbot, from OpenLinkProfiler.org. The ip address is 138.197.47.148, a Digital Ocean IP, which I have banned. I’ve also added spbot to by robots.txt. Sent a complaint letter to Digital Ocean at abuse@digitalocean.com:

Hi there,
Today I received a 1000 line scrape from one of your IP addresses:
138.197.47.148

The UA is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/5.0.3; +http://OpenLinkProfiler.org/bot )

Please have them cease their scraping activity as it unnecessarily uses up my bandwidth and CPU time.

I have included today’s log entry with their activity:

Thanks, Don