Post #1025812

2026-03-08 18:58 UTC

Yesterday we switched the OpenStreetMap.org website and API to Fastly to help protect our services from abusive scrapers and other threats. We already rely on Fastly for several other services - huge thanks! 🚀

Replies (4)

@osm_tech@en.osm.town 2026-03-08 19:04

Fastly's VCL + bot management is incredibly powerful. Running custom logic directly at the edge gives us huge flexibility when protecting and operating #OpenStreetMap services. ⚙️

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@rompe@gts.rompe.org 2026-03-08 19:23

@osm_tech Yeah, I noticed. 😀 But I could fix my app quickly and should have used a proper User-Agent from the beginning. Thanks for your service!

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@thibaultmol@en.osm.town 2026-03-08 19:24

@osm_tech (it would have been cool if it was a European service) but regardless, this is a good change that was unfortunately needed

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@rjw62@en.osm.town 2026-03-10 06:19

@osm_tech Since the change I've been getting "503 First Byte Timeout" errors on an API call https://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/notes/search.json?q=%23survey me&closed=0&limit=3500 used by one of my tools. It works fine with a lower limit (eg 350) but that misses some of the notes I want. Can you set a longer timeout with Fastly? (Unfortunately there's no direct paging option documented for that API call.)

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