# Install miasma with Homebrew Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit. Version 0.4.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-19. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:miasma ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install miasma ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:miasma - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 0.4.0 - **Source summary:** Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-19T06:35:51Z - **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - miasma (alias) ## Install behavior - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-03 - Package-manager version: 0.4.0 ## 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. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes 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. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/miasma.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/miasma.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - cross-ecosystem install command graph