After Show HN: Targeting the Bot Storm

After posting a Show HN on this platform, a veritable bot onslaught occurred within minutes. 175 bots were involved, generating over 1300 hits. Unfortunately, not a single real person was among the "visitors"—apparently not even out of pure curiosity. However, here is a list shortened to 50 entries (the input field doesn't allow more). The rest of the list, which has since been expanded to include another 90 bots, can be found via the link below. This list can be freely used for bot blocking, analysis, or whatever else you need it for.

1. Agent incident monitor/0.1 2. ai-freebie-radar/0.1 (+https://github.com/) 3. AI-NewsBot/3.0 article-extractor 4. AICUIScout/0.1 (+https://example.local; product research) 5. AIToolCompareBot/1.0 (+https://sortaitech.com/bot) 6. AppWatchBot/0.1 (+https://appwatch.ai/bot) 7. AppWatchBot/0.1 (+https://appwatch.ai/bot; freshness check only) 8. AppWatchBot/0.1 (+https://appwatch.ai/bot; liveness check only, no content stored) 9. arschiv-ngx/1.0 10. axios/1.13.5 11. BergaTools-ForumAggregator/1.0 (+https://github.com/BergaDev/PersonalTools) 12. Bryf/1.0 (Article Processor) 13. BubblemediaCrawler/1.0 (+https://bubblemedia.app/crawler) 14. CalatheaNews/2.0 (+https://github.com/nbitslabs/calathea-content-curator) 15. ClarFlow/2.0 (+https://clarflow.cn) 16. CheKakStartupBot/1.0 (+https://startup.chekak.store/about) 17. crawlberg/1.3.0 18. curl/7.4.0 19. directree-ingest/1.0 (+https://www.directree.io) 20. directree-outreach/1.0 (+https://www.directree.io) 21. Drakma/2.0.10 (SBCL 2.6.1; FreeBSD; 15.0-RELEASE-p10; http://weitz.de/drakma/) 22. Earthshine/1.0 (earthshine.fibonacci.ai; contact: hello@fibonacci.ai) 23. emerging-apps-monitor/2.0 (research; +https://hn.algolia.com/) 24. EnrichHatBot/0.1 (+https://hatos.internal/bot; first-party enrichment) 25. FixBeforeLaunchBot/0.1 (+https://fixbeforelaunch.com/bot; readiness scanner) 26. FlamingoBot (+https://hackernews.pink) 27. FoundryScope/1.0 (startup analysis bot; contact: amine.1.mestour@gmail.com) 28. FreshRSS/1.29.1 (Linux; https://freshrss.org) 29. GitHubCopilotRuntime-WebFetch 30. Go-http-client/1.1 31. go-resty/2.16.5 (https://github.com/go-resty/resty) 32. GreenWebChecker/1.0 (https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-checker-faq/) 33. HackerNews/1569 CFNetwork/3860.700.1 Darwin/25.6.0 34. HakuLabCollector/0.1 (+https://n8n.hakulab.cc) 35. Harmonic-HN-Android/3.1.2/fossRelease 36. Harmonic-HN-Android/3.1.2/playRelease 37. hermes-newsroom/0.1 (research project; +https://github.com/hermes-newsroom) 38. Hermes-SallyPageFetch/1.0 39. humanet-page-scraper/1.0 40. icon.horse/2.0 41. iHerd-surfer/0.1 (+https://i-herd.com; content discovery agent) 42. Indexaro/1.0 (+https://indexaro.com) 43. InfomateBot/1.0 (+https://infomate.club) 44. InsuranceLeadMachine/1.0 (+lead discovery; contact: ops@insuranceleadmachine.com) 45. InterestingFindsBot/0.1 (+https://nikhilkulkarni1755.com/bot) 46. IronReader/0.1 (+https://example.com; RSS reader) 47. Java/21.0.11 48. ken/0.1 (+https://github.com/zcag/ken) 49. KnisNewsCollector/1.0 (+local) 50. Ktor http-client

An expanded list with approximately 90 additional bots can be found at https://www.scraptrap.de/botlist.php