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Install miasma with Homebrew

Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit. Version 0.4.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-19.

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brew install miasma

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overview

Package summary

Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

Commands and aliases

  • miasma

history

Project history and usage

Miasma is a Rust-based anti-scraping tool from the austin-weeks/miasma GitHub project. Its README frames it as a way to send AI web scrapers into an endless set of generated pages rather than ordinary site content, using hidden links on a site and a reverse proxy route such as an Nginx location that points scraper traffic at the Miasma server.

Project history

The project belongs to the small tarpit/honeypot family of anti-crawler tools that emerged in response to large-scale AI scraping. Its documented usage is deliberately simple: place hidden, inaccessible-to-humans links into normal pages, proxy the trap path to Miasma, and let Miasma generate self-referential pages under that path. The README also documents operational guardrails such as rate limiting and a maximum number of in-flight connections.

How it is used

Its adoption signal is early and package-manager-specific: Homebrew packages it as `miasma`, Hacker News discussed the GitHub project, and the formula builds it from Rust source. Compared with general bot-blocking middleware, its niche is narrower and more adversarial: it is not a crawler classifier or robots.txt policy tool, but a poison-page generator for site operators who intentionally want unwanted scrapers to waste work.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for miasma. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
miasmacliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

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page generated2026-08-04
manager version0.4.0
manager updated2026-07-19
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.4.0

https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:miasma
Version0.4.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/miasma
Homepagehttps://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma
Repositoryhttps://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma/archive/refs/tags/v0.4.0.tar.gz
Last updated2026-07-19T06:35:51Z
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciesrust
Uses from macOSsqlite
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namemiasma
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

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