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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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Package summary
Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
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Commands and aliases
- miasma
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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.
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security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for miasma. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
miasma | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.4.0
manager updated2026-07-19
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:miasma |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.4.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma |
| Repository | https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma |
| Last updated | 2026-07-19T06:35:51Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
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