# User-agent: lfc-discourse-public-crawler

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-agent-lfc-discourse-public-crawler/407069>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [July 8, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-agent-lfc-discourse-public-crawler/407069 "2026-07-08T12:03:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Orioni](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/orioni/32/542679_2.png) [@Orioni](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Orioni)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-agent-lfc-discourse-public-crawler/407069/1 "2026-07-08T12:03:16Z")

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Good afternoon,

This is not so much a bug, as it is an attempt to figure out more information about what appears to be an aggressive **AI scraper**.

In my Cloudflare analytics dashboard, I see 60% of http requests coming from a user-agent with “Discourse” in the name, notably: `lfc-discourse-public-crawler`. The full user-agent is `lfc-discourse-public-crawler/0.1 (+public Discourse API archival crawl)`. I’ve never seen this user-agent before.

Additional information:

- Only accesses `.json` version of a topic.
- It appears to be operating out of Singapore.
- The IP leads back to `speedypage.com`.
- Browser: unknown/others.
- OS: unknown/others.

And it doesn’t appear affiliated with Discourse. But with a name like that, perhaps it’s good that you’re also aware of this.

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