A question about my JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) feed [1] prompted me to look a bit closer at the requests being made.
Table: JSON feed requests per user agent requests agent ------------------------------ 3723 Ruby 306 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; inoreader.com; 1 subscribers) 14 The Knowledge AI (Artificial Intelligence) 12 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeznamBot/3.2-test1; +http://napoveda.seznam.cz/en/seznambot-intro/) 10 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
That “Ruby” agent is not only requesting the feed every 10 minutes, but doing so from the same IP (Internet Protocol) address. It's excessive and it inflates the apparent popularity of the JSON feed, but it's not enough to get me to ban it, although it doesn't need to be quite so aggressive.
[1] https://lobste.rs/s/udxjyh/using_same_blogging_software_for_20_years#c_sjbbu4