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by jwr 4933 days ago
If these scrapers abide by robots.txt (you do have a robots.txt, right?) and scrape only whatever you left publicly accessible, then I think you should work on your server performance, because if a scraper causes problems, you'll have much worse problems once whatever you've built becomes popular.

Hunting down bots is a waste of time and effort better spent elsewhere.