{"id":2924,"date":"2026-03-12T07:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:39:57","slug":"fighting-chinese-bot-scrapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/12\/fighting-chinese-bot-scrapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Chinese bot scrapers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Apologies for the interruption to the service the last few days, we’ve been fighting bot scrapers which have been overloading the server with more requests than it can handle – which made the site inaccessible. Fortunately, we have AI too – so this won’t be a problem anymore. We are also going through a major upgrade – should deploy in a couple of weeks, moving from a php based app to node.js – this basically means it will be a lot faster. More to follow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apologies for the interruption to the service the last few days, we’ve been fighting bot scrapers which have been overloading the server with more requests than it can handle – which made the site inaccessible. Fortunately, we have AI too … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t