@Pikapods at this point I've resorted to a "shoot first, ask questions later" approach; blanket banning ranges, ASNs, etc. obviously not ideal but idk what else to do when these shitty bots fake their user agent and overload our web server. Cloudflare's ai bot blocking feature helps some but doesn't get all of them.

In conclusion whoever is making these scrapers should be banned from going within 15 feet of a computer ever again