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How Thousands Rogue Bots Accidentally Forced Me to Rewrite My Frontend Search Engine

Hi, everybody. 👋 This stems from my curiosity over my statistics on Cloudflare. As I've observed from the dashboard — specifically on the Analytics ➡️ HTTP Traffic — the listed countries wildly varied each day. And also, very odd number of requests. Thus, I pulled the data from Cloudflare's GraphQL API — available for Free Tier, capped at 10k per 24h — to analyse it with a user interface (UI). I've been observing outside Cloudflare dashboard since March 2026. Built the UI from scratch. But in these few days, there's a more peculiar pattern. Well, not "more". "Peculiar" is indeed already with its own uniqueness — so perhaps, "different peculiarity". Well. Turned out, those were mostly rogue bots. I'd noticed the bombardments were more active around 1-2 weeks ago. On my domain and subdomains. Those php , .env , credentials , and so forth scanning eggplants. You know, akin to those that just plonked their hindquarters...
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