Topics covered in this episode: 🤖 On Robots.txt niquests Every dunder method in Python Lockbox Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by ScoutAPM: pythonbytes.fm/scout Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Tuesdays at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Brian #1: 🤖 On Robots.txt Jeff Triplett “In theory, this file helps control what search engines and AI scrapers are allowed to visit, but I need more confidence in its effectiveness in the post-AI apocalyptic world.” Resources to get started Block the Bots that Feed “AI” Models by Scraping Your Website Go ahead and block AI web crawlers Dark Visitors Django Add robots.txt to a Django website How to add a robots.txt to your Django site Hugo Hugo robots.txt Podcast questions: Should content creators block AI from our work? Should’t we set up a standard way to do this? I still haven’t found a way to block GitHub repositories. Is there a way? Licensing is one thing (not easy), but I don’t think any bots respect any protocol for repos. Michael #2: niquests Requests but with HTTP/3, HTTP/2, Multiplexed Connections, System CAs, Certificate Revocation, DNS over HTTPS / TLS / QUIC or UDP, Async, DNSSEC, and (much) pain removed! Niquests is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. It is a drop-in replacement for Requests, which is under feature freeze. See why you should switch: Read about 10 reasons why Brian #3: Every dunder method in Python Trey Hunner Sure, there’s __repr__(),