Bot protection and CAPTCHAs
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Cap is a self-hosted tool that checks whether a visitor is a real person without showing puzzles or tracking them. It is for website owners who want to keep bots and AI crawlers off their sites.
Has 2 of 6 · Protects a whole site, no code changes ✗
How many people bookmarked its code on GitHub. It shows how popular it is, not how good it is or how well it replaces the app.
How hard it is to start using it. Easy: install it like a normal app, or use it in your browser. Advanced: you run it on your own server, use the command line, or it is a tool for developers.
Its code changed within the last year, so someone is still looking after it.
Does the whole job.
Ordered by how fully it replaces the app, Verified, setup and, when there are enough, people's votes.
Anubis is a tool that sits in front of a website and blocks automated bots and AI scrapers that flood it with requests. It is meant for website operators, especially small sites, who cannot or will not use Cloudflare for protection.
Has 1 of 6
How many people bookmarked its code on GitHub. It shows how popular it is, not how good it is or how well it replaces the app.
How hard it is to start using it. Easy: install it like a normal app, or use it in your browser. Advanced: you run it on your own server, use the command line, or it is a tool for developers.
Its code changed within the last year, so someone is still looking after it.
Does part of the job.
Ordered by how fully it replaces the app, Verified, setup and, when there are enough, people's votes.
mCaptcha is a free system that checks whether a visitor is a person or a bot, without the image puzzles people usually have to solve. It is for website owners who want to keep bots and automated crawlers off their sites.
Has 1 of 6
How many people bookmarked its code on GitHub. It shows how popular it is, not how good it is or how well it replaces the app.
How hard it is to start using it. Easy: install it like a normal app, or use it in your browser. Advanced: you run it on your own server, use the command line, or it is a tool for developers.
Nobody has changed its code in over a year. It may still work well, but help is less likely.
Does the whole job.
Ordered by how fully it replaces the app, Verified, setup and, when there are enough, people's votes.
A free code library and command-line tool that creates and checks small computing puzzles, which help tell real visitors apart from bots on a website. It is for programmers who build website protection.
Has 0 of 6 · Protects a whole site, no code changes ✗ +1
How many people bookmarked its code on GitHub. It shows how popular it is, not how good it is or how well it replaces the app.
How hard it is to start using it. Easy: install it like a normal app, or use it in your browser. Advanced: you run it on your own server, use the command line, or it is a tool for developers.
Its code changed within the last year, so someone is still looking after it.
Does part of the job.
Ordered by how fully it replaces the app, Verified, setup and, when there are enough, people's votes.
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