How do I block this tool?

[Xe]

As a system administrator, I'd like to be able to block this tool. How can I do it?

[axgoodhart]

You can place your web content behind a keyed gate with server side content delivery

[batstelado1989]

It doesn't appear to identify itself in any way so you'd most likely have to block all automated/headless browsers (detecting them with navigator.webdriver and similar)

By default, it uses this UA for some non-browser fetching. I'd argue it's probably safe to block it, as you'd only impact a few real users since it's so specific.

kage/clone/config.go

Lines 68 to 71 in 01e75b8

	// DefaultUserAgent is a current desktop Chrome UA, used by the asset fetcher and
	// the robots fetch so a site treats kage like the browser it drives.
	const DefaultUserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) " +
	"AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

[tamnd]

The best way to block this is to add these two lines to your robots.txt file. If you already block bot crawlers, that should work too.

Kage is polite and follows the rules in robots.txt by default.

User-agent: Kage
Disallow: /

See https://github.com/tamnd/kage/blob/main/robots/robots_test.go

[tamnd]

I created this tool to help people download websites for personal offline usage, like reading on a train or a plane, not to harm websites.

[cubesendurance]

This is a beautiful tool and I appreciate the hard work you've put in it!

[hellosimplerick]

I created this tool to help people download websites for personal offline usage, like reading on a train or a plane, not to harm websites.

100% agree and the fact that you open-sourced this tool, speaks volumes to your professionalism. Cape Verde? That must have hurt! 🇪🇸