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title: Anubis
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## Sponsors

Anubis is brought to you by sponsors and donors like:

### Diamond Tier

<a href="https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/products.html">
  <img
    src="/img/sponsors/raptor-computing-logo.webp"
    alt="Raptor Computing Systems"
    height="64"
  />
</a>
<a href="https://databento.com/?utm_source=anubis&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=anubis">
  <img src="/img/sponsors/databento-logo.webp" alt="Databento" height="64" />
</a>

### Gold Tier

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  <img src="/img/sponsors/distrust-logo.webp" alt="Distrust" height="64" />
</a>
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  <img src="/img/sponsors/gitea-logo.webp" alt="Gitea" height="64" />
</a>
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  <img src="/img/sponsors/prolocation-logo.svg" alt="Prolocation" height="64" />
</a>
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    src="/img/sponsors/terminal-trove.webp"
    alt="Terminal Trove"
    height="64"
  />
</a>
<a href="https://canine.tools?utm_campaign=github&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=anubis">
  <img
    src="/img/sponsors/caninetools-logo.webp"
    alt="canine.tools"
    height="64"
  />
</a>
<a href="https://weblate.org/">
  <img src="/img/sponsors/weblate-logo.webp" alt="Weblate" height="64" />
</a>
<a href="https://uberspace.de/">
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</a>
<a href="https://wildbase.xyz/">
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</a>
<a href="https://emma.pet">
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    src="/img/sponsors/nepeat-logo.webp"
    alt="Cat eyes over the word Emma in a serif font"
    height="64"
  />
</a>
<a href="https://fabulous.systems/">
  <img
    src="/img/sponsors/fabulous-systems.webp"
    alt="Cat eyes over the word Emma in a serif font"
    height="64"
  />
</a>

## Overview

Anubis is a Web AI Firewall Utility that [weighs the soul of your connection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighing_of_souls) using one or more challenges in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots.

This program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies. Anubis is as lightweight as possible to ensure that everyone can afford to protect the communities closest to them.

Anubis is a bit of a nuclear response. This will result in your website being blocked from smaller scrapers and may inhibit "good bots" like the Internet Archive. You can configure [bot policy definitions](https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/policies) to explicitly allowlist them and we are working on a curated set of "known good" bots to allow for a compromise between discoverability and uptime.

In most cases, you should not need this and can probably get by using Cloudflare to protect a given origin. However, for circumstances where you can't or won't use Cloudflare, Anubis is there for you.

## Support

If you run into any issues running Anubis, please [open an issue](https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/new?template=Blank+issue) and include all the information I would need to diagnose your issue.

For live chat, please join the [Patreon](https://patreon.com/cadey) or join [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/Xe) and ask in the Patron discord in the channel `#anubis`.

## Star History

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## Packaging Status

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## Contributors

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