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Trying to access state historical records is getting more difficult because, as an Indiana librarian wrote to me today, "our state IT team is battling theft-bot scraping which is slowing down the workings of the site for the public." My personal fix for this would be scrape the site myself.

23/10/26, 3:55 pm8 reposts46 likes

Ben Keith 🎃

@benlk.com

Perhaps they can export a regular backup of the site, and share it via torrent?

dan sinker

@dansinker.com

that's the hope but, of course, they don't actually control the site it's a third party vendor so we wait