Originally Posted by
chalkhillblue
Can users of speedbird-online explain its current technical problems? It's become impossible to access details of individual flights. An error message says: "Due to excessive server load caused by automated data scraping, this service is temporarily unavailable." It's been like this for weeks. I use this site a lot and rely on its flight data to investigate delays and assist compensation claimants. I have sent them messages but they have not responded.
I've no inside knowledge of speedbird.online, but many sites are struggling from the impact of AI crawlers/bots hammering them to extract free data.