On: Show HN: IPDetective – An API for IP bot detection

[marvinblum]

Same here. I would like to integrate a simple blacklist into our system. Does anybody know of a good IP lists that contains known bots, data centers, and so on?

Also from a performance perspective, I can't do hundreds of millions of requests a month over the wire. That just a waste.

[AndrewCopeland → marvinblum]

IPDetective collects data data from bot nets, datacenters, tor nodes, proxies and vpns. Is that what you are looking for?

Also IPDetective can be used just as a detection solution rather than a prevention solution.

Sometimes I use it against my nginx access logs and see how much of my traffic could be from bots.

[marvinblum → AndrewCopeland]

I think your service would be close to what I'm looking for. But can you handle 120+ million requests per month? I would rather integrate an open-source list into our open-source tool than using a proprietary service.

[AndrewCopeland → marvinblum]

I feel you. Maybe we could work something out.