AI crawlers are degrading France's national digital library Gallica with constant rate limits
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-29
Gallica, the French national library's digital platform, has become hard to use in recent months: users report hitting "too many requests" pages after just 15 minutes of work. The original thread attributes this to heavy AI crawler traffic — surging bot scraping is crowding out ordinary users and researchers accessing public digital resources.
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