--- title: Supercazzola | daily.dev description: Supercazzola is a scraper tar pit that generates an endless graph of dynamically created webpages to poison web crawlers that ignore robots.txt. Built with C... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/supercazzola-swqaqdufl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Supercazzola | daily.dev og:description: Supercazzola is a scraper tar pit that generates an endless graph of dynamically created webpages to poison web crawlers that ignore robots.txt. Built with C... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/supercazzola-swqaqdufl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SwQaQDufL.png og:image:alt: Supercazzola og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Supercazzola **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Supercazzola is a scraper tar pit that generates an endless graph of dynamically created webpages to poison web crawlers that ignore robots.txt. Built with C using libevent, it includes tools to compile Markov chains from text files and a daemon that serves randomly generated HTML content. The system creates spam endpoints to trap aggressive bots while providing statistics on visitors, with configuration options for reverse proxy setups and privilege dropping. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Messing with bots](https://daily.dev/posts/messing-with-bots-2basauov0) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [GitHub - austin-weeks/miasma: Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit.](https://daily.dev/posts/github---austin-weeks-miasma-trap-ai-web-scrapers-in-an-endless-poison-pit--qzndqhaje) · Hacker News · 12 upvotes · 1 comments - [You should feed the bots: \(Maurycy's blog\)](https://daily.dev/posts/you-should-feed-the-bots-maurycy-s-blog--aqquphtsq) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#c](https://daily.dev/tags/c), [#crawling](https://daily.dev/tags/crawling) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/supercazzola-swqaqdufl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Supercazzola","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/supercazzola-swqaqdufl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/supercazzola-swqaqdufl"},"datePublished":"2026-02-14T11:30:51.895Z","dateModified":"2026-02-14T11:31:14.652Z","description":"Supercazzola is a scraper tar pit that generates an endless graph of dynamically created webpages to poison web crawlers that ignore robots.txt. Built with C...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--foaA6JGU--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2004","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--foaA6JGU--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2004","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Lobsters","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lobsters","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--tl8v_Fku--/f_auto,t_logo/v1698841318/logos/lobste.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/supercazzola-swqaqdufl","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"security,linux,c,crawling","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lobsters","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Supercazzola"}]} ```