#scraper
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #scraper from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #scraper
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-09 18:49 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-09 18:49 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-09 18:49 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~9034 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (28) · German (8) · Polish (1) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.3
Top of the latest posts
What are people doing to defend against scraper waves that totally over do it nowdays? Anubis? AS blocking? fail2ban? Banning expensive endpoints behind logins? nginx rate limits? What else? I would very much appreciate if people could shar
MWoffliner 1.17 has been released! https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwoffliner/v/1.17.0 This is a minor new version of our flagship #MediaWiki #scraper but the changelog is still huge with really a lot of bug fixes! https://github.com/openzim/
@scottearle In case (like me) you prefer text to video: AI companies scrape Web sites for training data. Scraping is so aggressive that it acts as a denial of service attack. Web sites naturally block #AI scrapers. AI companies bypass the b
What “scraper” means
Wiktionary#scraper across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #scraper straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/scraper