Attack of the feed fetchers

A question about my JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) feed [1] prompted me to look a bit closer at the requests being made.

Table: JSON feed requests per user agent
requests	agent
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3723	Ruby
306	Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; inoreader.com; 1 subscribers)
14	The Knowledge AI (Artificial Intelligence)
12	Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeznamBot/3.2-test1; +http://napoveda.seznam.cz/en/seznambot-intro/)
10	Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

That “Ruby” agent is not only requesting the feed every 10 minutes, but doing so from the same IP (Internet Protocol) address. It's excessive and it inflates the apparent popularity of the JSON feed, but it's not enough to get me to ban it, although it doesn't need to be quite so aggressive.

=> [1] https://lobste.rs/s/udxjyh/using_same_blogging_software_for_20_years#c_sjbbu4

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