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NEPENTHESWEB/nepenthes-py

The first anti-AI tarpit. Rewritten in Python. Traps LLM crawlers in an infinite maze of fake pages and Markov babble.

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How fast NEPENTHESWEB/nepenthes-py is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 7 – Nov 4, 2026

Stars +35 in 59 days

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  1. Aug 31 post

    • ShieldFont.org (+ autres) > Pas une protection absolue, mais une forme de sabotage économique du scraping non ciblé.

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      r/artificielle

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  3. Jul 61 post

    • Testing their patience

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      r/PoisonFountain

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