lib: move config to yaml (#307)

* lib: move config to yaml Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net> * web: run go generate Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net> * Add Haiku to known instances (#304) Signed-off-by: Asmodeus <46908100+AsmodeumX@users.noreply.github.com> * Add headers bot rule (#300) * Closes #291: add headers support to bot policy rules * Fix config validator * update docs for JSON -> YAML Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net> * docs: document http header based actions Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net> * lib: add missing test Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net> * Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net> --------- Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@xeiaso.net> Signed-off-by: Asmodeus <46908100+AsmodeumX@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Asmodeus <46908100+AsmodeumX@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Neur0toxine <pashok9825@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-08-03 09:48:08 -04:00 · 2025-04-20 20:09:27 -04:00 · 2025-04-20 20:09:27 -04:00 · d40b5cfdab
commit d40b5cfdab
parent 022eb59ff3
22 changed files with 854 additions and 19 deletions
--- a/data/botPolicies.json
+++ b/data/botPolicies.json
@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 {
  "bots": [
+    {
+      "name": "cloudflare-workers",
+      "headers_regex": {
+        "CF-Worker": ".*"
+      },
+      "action": "DENY"
+    },
    {
      "name": "ai-robots-txt",
      "user_agent_regex": "AI2Bot|Ai2Bot-Dolma|Amazonbot|anthropic-ai|Applebot|Applebot-Extended|Brightbot 1.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT-User|Claude-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere-ai|cohere-training-data-crawler|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|FriendlyCrawler|Google-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther-Image|GoogleOther-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2.0|ICC-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo Bot|Meta-ExternalAgent|Meta-ExternalFetcher|OAI-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|PanguBot|Perplexity-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot-OCOB|SemrushBot-SWA|Sidetrade indexer bot|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio-Extended|YouBot",
@ -680,4 +687,4 @@
    }
  ],
  "dnsbl": false
-}
+}
--- a/data/botPolicies.yaml
+++ b/data/botPolicies.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,662 @@
+bots:
+# Pathological bots to deny
+- name: us-artificial-intelligence-scraper
+  user_agent_regex: \+https\://github\.com/US-Artificial-Intelligence/scraper
+  action: DENY
+- name: lightpanda
+  user_agent_regex: ^LightPanda/.*$
+  action: DENY
+- name: headless-chrome
+  user_agent_regex: HeadlessChrome
+  action: DENY
+- name: headless-chromium
+  user_agent_regex: HeadlessChromium
+  action: DENY
+- name: "ai-robots-txt"
+  user_agent_regex: >
+    AI2Bot|Ai2Bot-Dolma|Amazonbot|anthropic-ai|Applebot|Applebot-Extended|Brightbot 1.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT-User|Claude-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere-ai|cohere-training-data-crawler|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|FriendlyCrawler|Google-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther-Image|GoogleOther-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2.0|ICC-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo Bot|Meta-ExternalAgent|Meta-ExternalFetcher|OAI-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|PanguBot|Perplexity-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot-OCOB|SemrushBot-SWA|Sidetrade indexer bot|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio-Extended|YouBot
+  action: DENY
+- name: cloudflare-workers
+  headers_regex:
+    CF-Worker: .*
+  action: DENY
+
+# search engines to allow
+- name: googlebot
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+  action: ALLOW
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+    "172.169.17.165/32",
+    "51.8.71.117/32",
+    "20.3.1.178/32"
+  ]
+- name: qwantbot
+  user_agent_regex: \+https\://help\.qwant\.com/bot/
+  action: ALLOW
+  # https://help.qwant.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/qwantbot.json
+  remote_addresses: [ "91.242.162.0/24" ]
+- name: internet-archive
+  action: ALLOW
+  # https://ipinfo.io/AS7941
+  remote_addresses: [
+    "207.241.224.0/20",
+    "208.70.24.0/21",
+    "2620:0:9c0::/48"
+  ]
+- name: kagibot
+  user_agent_regex: \+https\://kagi\.com/bot
+  action: ALLOW
+  # https://kagi.com/bot
+  remote_addresses: [
+    "216.18.205.234/32",
+    "35.212.27.76/32",
+    "104.254.65.50/32",
+    "209.151.156.194/32"
+  ]
+- name: marginalia
+  user_agent_regex: search\.marginalia\.nu
+  action: ALLOW
+  # Received directly over email
+  remote_addresses: [
+    "193.183.0.162/31",
+    "193.183.0.164/30",
+    "193.183.0.168/30",
+    "193.183.0.172/31",
+    "193.183.0.174/32"
+  ]
+- name: mojeekbot
+  user_agent_regex: http\://www\.mojeek\.com/bot\.html
+  action: ALLOW
+  # https://www.mojeek.com/bot.html
+  remote_addresses: [ "5.102.173.71/32" ]
+
+# Common "keeping the internet working" routes
+- name: well-known
+  path_regex: ^/.well-known/.*$
+  action: ALLOW
+- name: favicon
+  path_regex: ^/favicon.ico$
+  action: ALLOW
+- name: robots-txt
+  path_regex: ^/robots.txt$
+  action: ALLOW
+
+# Punish any bot with "bot" in the user-agent string
+- name: generic-bot-catchall
+  user_agent_regex: (?i:bot|crawler)
+  action: CHALLENGE
+  challenge:
+    difficulty: 16  # impossible
+    report_as: 4    # lie to the operator
+    algorithm: slow # intentionally waste CPU cycles and time
+
+- name: generic-browser
+  user_agent_regex: >
+    Mozilla|Opera
+  action: CHALLENGE
+
+dnsbl: false
--- a/data/embed.go
+++ b/data/embed.go
@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ package data
 import "embed"

 var (
-	//go:embed botPolicies.json
+	//go:embed botPolicies.yaml botPolicies.json
 	BotPolicies embed.FS
 )
--- a/docs/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Added example Apache configuration to the documentation [#277](https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/277)
 - Move per-environment configuration details into their own pages
 - Added headers support to bot policy rules
+- Moved configuration file from JSON to YAML by default
 - Added documentation on how to use Anubis with Traefik in Docker

 ## v1.16.0
--- a/docs/docs/admin/environments/docker-compose.mdx
+++ b/docs/docs/admin/environments/docker-compose.mdx
@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ services:
      METRICS_BIND: ":9090"
      SERVE_ROBOTS_TXT: "true"
      TARGET: "http://nginx"
-      POLICY_FNAME: "/data/cfg/botPolicy.json"
+      POLICY_FNAME: "/data/cfg/botPolicy.yaml"
      OG_PASSTHROUGH: "true"
      OG_EXPIRY_TIME: "24h"
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    volumes:
-      - "./botPolicy.json:/data/cfg/botPolicy.json:ro"
+      - "./botPolicy.yaml:/data/cfg/botPolicy.yaml:ro"
  nginx:
    image: nginx
    volumes:
--- a/docs/docs/admin/installation.mdx
+++ b/docs/docs/admin/installation.mdx
@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Anubis uses these environment variables for configuration:
 | `METRICS_BIND_NETWORK`         | `tcp`                   | The address family that the Anubis metrics server listens on. See `BIND_NETWORK` for more information.                                                                                                                                                                                   |
 | `OG_EXPIRY_TIME`               | `24h`                   | The expiration time for the Open Graph tag cache.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
 | `OG_PASSTHROUGH`               | `false`                 | If set to `true`, Anubis will enable Open Graph tag passthrough.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| `POLICY_FNAME`                 | unset                   | The file containing [bot policy configuration](./policies.md). See the bot policy documentation for more details. If unset, the default bot policy configuration is used.                                                                                                                |
+| `POLICY_FNAME`                 | unset                   | The file containing [bot policy configuration](./policies.mdx). See the bot policy documentation for more details. If unset, the default bot policy configuration is used.                                                                                                               |
 | `SERVE_ROBOTS_TXT`             | `false`                 | If set `true`, Anubis will serve a default `robots.txt` file that disallows all known AI scrapers by name and then additionally disallows every scraper. This is useful if facts and circumstances make it difficult to change the underlying service to serve such a `robots.txt` file. |
 | `SOCKET_MODE`                  | `0770`                  | _Only used when at least one of the `*_BIND_NETWORK` variables are set to `unix`._ The socket mode (permissions) for Unix domain sockets.                                                                                                                                                |
 | `TARGET`                       | `http://localhost:3923` | The URL of the service that Anubis should forward valid requests to. Supports Unix domain sockets, set this to a URI like so: `unix:///path/to/socket.sock`.                                                                                                                             |
--- a/docs/docs/admin/native-install.mdx
+++ b/docs/docs/admin/native-install.mdx
@ -86,20 +86,20 @@ Once it's installed, make a copy of the default configuration file `/etc/anubis/
 sudo cp /etc/anubis/default.env /etc/anubis/gitea.env
 ```

-Copy the default bot policies file to `/etc/anubis/gitea.botPolicies.json`:
+Copy the default bot policies file to `/etc/anubis/gitea.botPolicies.yaml`:

 <Tabs>
 <TabItem value="debrpm" label="Debian or Red Hat" default>

 ```text
-sudo cp /usr/share/doc/anubis/botPolicies.json /etc/anubis/gitea.botPolicies.json
+sudo cp /usr/share/doc/anubis/botPolicies.yaml /etc/anubis/gitea.botPolicies.yaml
 ```

 </TabItem>
 <TabItem value="tarball" label="Tarball">

 ```text
-sudo cp ./doc/botPolicies.json /etc/anubis/gitea.botPolicies.json
+sudo cp ./doc/botPolicies.yaml /etc/anubis/gitea.botPolicies.yaml
 ```

 </TabItem>
@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ BIND_NETWORK=tcp
 DIFFICULTY=4
 METRICS_BIND=[::1]:8240
 METRICS_BIND_NETWORK=tcp
-POLICY_FNAME=/etc/anubis/gitea.botPolicies.json
+POLICY_FNAME=/etc/anubis/gitea.botPolicies.yaml
 TARGET=http://localhost:3000
 ```

--- a/docs/docs/admin/policies.mdx
+++ b/docs/docs/admin/policies.mdx
@ -2,15 +2,24 @@
 title: Policy Definitions
 ---

+import Tabs from "@theme/Tabs";
+import TabItem from "@theme/TabItem";
+
 Out of the box, Anubis is pretty heavy-handed. It will aggressively challenge everything that might be a browser (usually indicated by having `Mozilla` in its user agent). However, some bots are smart enough to get past the challenge. Some things that look like bots may actually be fine (IE: RSS readers). Some resources need to be visible no matter what. Some resources and remotes are fine to begin with.

 Bot policies let you customize the rules that Anubis uses to allow, deny, or challenge incoming requests. Currently you can set policies by the following matches:

 - Request path
 - User agent string
+- HTTP request header values
+
+As of version v1.17.0 or later, configuration can be written in either JSON or YAML.

 Here's an example rule that denies [Amazonbot](https://developer.amazon.com/en/amazonbot):

+<Tabs>
+<TabItem value="json" label="JSON" default>
+
 ```json
 {
  "name": "amazonbot",
@ -19,15 +28,37 @@ Here's an example rule that denies [Amazonbot](https://developer.amazon.com/en/a
 }
 ```

+</TabItem>
+<TabItem value="yaml" label="YAML">
+
+```yaml
+- name: amazonbot
+  user_agent_regex: Amazonbot
+  action: DENY
+```
+
+</TabItem>
+</Tabs>
+
 When this rule is evaluated, Anubis will check the `User-Agent` string of the request. If it contains `Amazonbot`, Anubis will send an error page to the user saying that access is denied, but in such a way that makes scrapers think they have correctly loaded the webpage.

 Right now the only kinds of policies you can write are bot policies. Other forms of policies will be added in the future.

 Here is a minimal policy file that will protect against most scraper bots:

+<Tabs>
+<TabItem value="json" label="JSON" default>
+
 ```json
 {
  "bots": [
+    {
+      "name": "cloudflare-workers",
+      "headers_regex": {
+        "CF-Worker": ".*"
+      },
+      "action": "DENY"
+    },
    {
      "name": "well-known",
      "path_regex": "^/.well-known/.*$",
@ -52,6 +83,32 @@ Here is a minimal policy file that will protect against most scraper bots:
 }
 ```

+</TabItem>
+<TabItem value="yaml" label="YAML">
+
+```yaml
+bots:
+  - name: cloudflare-workers
+    headers_regex:
+      CF-Worker: .*
+    action: DENY
+  - name: well-known
+    path_regex: ^/.well-known/.*$
+    action: ALLOW
+  - name: favicon
+    path_regex: ^/favicon.ico$
+    action: ALLOW
+  - name: robots-txt
+    path_regex: ^/robots.txt$
+    action: ALLOW
+  - name: generic-browser
+    user_agent_regex: Mozilla
+    action: CHALLENGE
+```
+
+</TabItem>
+</Tabs>
+
 This allows requests to [`/.well-known`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_URI), `/favicon.ico`, `/robots.txt`, and challenges any request that has the word `Mozilla` in its User-Agent string. The [default policy file](https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/data/botPolicies.json) is a bit more cohesive, but this should be more than enough for most users.

 If no rules match the request, it is allowed through.
@ -72,6 +129,9 @@ Name your rules in lower case using kebab-case. Rule names will be exposed in Pr

 Rules can also have their own challenge settings. These are customized using the `"challenge"` key. For example, here is a rule that makes challenges artificially hard for connections with the substring "bot" in their user agent:

+<Tabs>
+<TabItem value="json" label="JSON" default>
+
 ```json
 {
  "name": "generic-bot-catchall",
@ -85,6 +145,23 @@ Rules can also have their own challenge settings. These are customized using the
 }
 ```

+</TabItem>
+<TabItem value="yaml" label="YAML">
+
+```yaml
+# Punish any bot with "bot" in the user-agent string
+- name: generic-bot-catchall
+  user_agent_regex: (?i:bot|crawler)
+  action: CHALLENGE
+  challenge:
+    difficulty: 16 # impossible
+    report_as: 4 # lie to the operator
+    algorithm: slow # intentionally waste CPU cycles and time
+```
+
+</TabItem>
+</Tabs>
+
 Challenges can be configured with these settings:

 | Key          | Example  | Description                                                                                                                                                                                    |
@ -99,6 +176,9 @@ The `remote_addresses` field of a Bot rule allows you to set the IP range that t

 For example, you can allow a search engine to connect if and only if its IP address matches the ones they published:

+<Tabs>
+<TabItem value="json" label="JSON" default>
+
 ```json
 {
  "name": "qwantbot",
@ -108,8 +188,25 @@ For example, you can allow a search engine to connect if and only if its IP addr
 }
 ```

+</TabItem>
+<TabItem value="yaml" label="YAML">
+
+```yaml
+- name: qwantbot
+  user_agent_regex: \+https\://help\.qwant\.com/bot/
+  action: ALLOW
+  # https://help.qwant.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/qwantbot.json
+  remote_addresses: ["91.242.162.0/24"]
+```
+
+</TabItem>
+</Tabs>
+
 This also works at an IP range level without any other checks:

+<Tabs>
+<TabItem value="json" label="JSON" default>
+
 ```json
 {
  "name": "internal-network",
@ -118,6 +215,19 @@ This also works at an IP range level without any other checks:
 }
 ```

+</TabItem>
+<TabItem value="yaml" label="YAML">
+
+```yaml
+name: internal-network
+action: ALLOW
+remote_addresses:
+  - 100.64.0.0/10
+```
+
+</TabItem>
+</Tabs>
+
 ## Risk calculation for downstream services

 In case your service needs it for risk calculation reasons, Anubis exposes information about the rules that any requests match using a few headers:
--- a/docs/docs/index.mdx
+++ b/docs/docs/index.mdx
@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Anubis [weighs the soul of your connection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighi

 This program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies. Anubis is as lightweight as possible to ensure that everyone can afford to protect the communities closest to them.

-Anubis is a bit of a nuclear response. This will result in your website being blocked from smaller scrapers and may inhibit "good bots" like the Internet Archive. You can configure [bot policy definitions](./admin/policies.md) to explicitly allowlist them and we are working on a curated set of "known good" bots to allow for a compromise between discoverability and uptime.
+Anubis is a bit of a nuclear response. This will result in your website being blocked from smaller scrapers and may inhibit "good bots" like the Internet Archive. You can configure [bot policy definitions](./admin/policies.mdx) to explicitly allowlist them and we are working on a curated set of "known good" bots to allow for a compromise between discoverability and uptime.

 ## Support

--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/tools v0.31.0 // indirect
 	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.5 // indirect
 	honnef.co/go/tools v0.6.1 // indirect
+	k8s.io/apimachinery v0.32.3 // indirect
+	sigs.k8s.io/json v0.0.0-20241010143419-9aa6b5e7a4b3 // indirect
+	sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.4.0 // indirect
 )

 tool (
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@ -138,3 +138,9 @@ gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 h1:fxVm/GzAzEWqLHuvctI91KS9hhNmmWOoWu0XTYJS7CA=
 gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
 honnef.co/go/tools v0.6.1 h1:R094WgE8K4JirYjBaOpz/AvTyUu/3wbmAoskKN/pxTI=
 honnef.co/go/tools v0.6.1/go.mod h1:3puzxxljPCe8RGJX7BIy1plGbxEOZni5mR2aXe3/uk4=
+k8s.io/apimachinery v0.32.3 h1:JmDuDarhDmA/Li7j3aPrwhpNBA94Nvk5zLeOge9HH1U=
+k8s.io/apimachinery v0.32.3/go.mod h1:GpHVgxoKlTxClKcteaeuF1Ul/lDVb74KpZcxcmLDElE=
+sigs.k8s.io/json v0.0.0-20241010143419-9aa6b5e7a4b3 h1:/Rv+M11QRah1itp8VhT6HoVx1Ray9eB4DBr+K+/sCJ8=
+sigs.k8s.io/json v0.0.0-20241010143419-9aa6b5e7a4b3/go.mod h1:18nIHnGi6636UCz6m8i4DhaJ65T6EruyzmoQqI2BVDo=
+sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.4.0 h1:Mk1wCc2gy/F0THH0TAp1QYyJNzRm2KCLy3o5ASXVI5E=
+sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.4.0/go.mod h1:Ejl7/uTz7PSA4eKMyQCUTnhZYNmLIl+5c2lQPGR2BPY=
--- a/lib/anubis.go
+++ b/lib/anubis.go
@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ func LoadPoliciesOrDefault(fname string, defaultDifficulty int) (*policy.ParsedC
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("can't parse policy file %s: %w", fname, err)
 		}
 	} else {
-		fname = "(data)/botPolicies.json"
-		fin, err = data.BotPolicies.Open("botPolicies.json")
+		fname = "(data)/botPolicies.yaml"
+		fin, err = data.BotPolicies.Open("botPolicies.yaml")
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("[unexpected] can't parse builtin policy file %s: %w", fname, err)
 		}
--- a/lib/anubis_test.go
+++ b/lib/anubis_test.go
@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"

 	"github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis"
+	"github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/data"
 	"github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/internal"
 	"github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/lib/policy"
 )
@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ import (
 func loadPolicies(t *testing.T, fname string) *policy.ParsedConfig {
 	t.Helper()

-	anubisPolicy, err := LoadPoliciesOrDefault("", anubis.DefaultDifficulty)
+	anubisPolicy, err := LoadPoliciesOrDefault(fname, anubis.DefaultDifficulty)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@ -55,6 +56,22 @@ func makeChallenge(t *testing.T, ts *httptest.Server) challenge {
 	return chall
 }

+func TestLoadPolicies(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, fname := range []string{"botPolicies.json", "botPolicies.yaml"} {
+		t.Run(fname, func(t *testing.T) {
+			fin, err := data.BotPolicies.Open(fname)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			defer fin.Close()
+
+			if _, err := policy.ParseConfig(fin, fname, 4); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 // Regression test for CVE-2025-24369
 func TestCVE2025_24369(t *testing.T) {
 	pol := loadPolicies(t, "")
--- a/lib/policy/config/config_test.go
+++ b/lib/policy/config/config_test.go
@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 package config

 import (
-	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"testing"
+
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/yaml"
 )

 func p[V any](v V) *V { return &v }
@ -219,7 +220,7 @@ func TestConfigValidKnownGood(t *testing.T) {
 			defer fin.Close()

 			var c Config
-			if err := json.NewDecoder(fin).Decode(&c); err != nil {
+			if err := yaml.NewYAMLToJSONDecoder(fin).Decode(&c); err != nil {
 				t.Fatalf("can't decode file: %v", err)
 			}

@ -246,7 +247,7 @@ func TestConfigValidBad(t *testing.T) {
 			defer fin.Close()

 			var c Config
-			if err := json.NewDecoder(fin).Decode(&c); err != nil {
+			if err := yaml.NewYAMLToJSONDecoder(fin).Decode(&c); err != nil {
 				t.Fatalf("can't decode file: %v", err)
 			}

--- a/lib/policy/config/testdata/bad/badregexes.yaml
+++ b/lib/policy/config/testdata/bad/badregexes.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+bots:
+- name: path-bad
+  path_regex: "a(b"
+  action: DENY
+- name: user-agent-bad
+  user_agent_regex: "a(b"
+  action: DENY
--- a/lib/policy/config/testdata/bad/invalid.yaml
+++ b/lib/policy/config/testdata/bad/invalid.yaml
@ -0,0 +1 @@
+bots: []
--- a/lib/policy/config/testdata/bad/nobots.yaml
+++ b/lib/policy/config/testdata/bad/nobots.yaml
@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{}
--- a/lib/policy/config/testdata/good/allow_everyone.yaml
+++ b/lib/policy/config/testdata/good/allow_everyone.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+bots:
+- name: everyones-invited
+  remote_addresses:
+    - "0.0.0.0/0"
+    - "::/0"
+  action: ALLOW
--- a/lib/policy/config/testdata/good/block_cf_workers.yaml
+++ b/lib/policy/config/testdata/good/block_cf_workers.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+bots:
+  - name: cloudflare-workers
+    headers_regex:
+      CF-Worker: .*
+    action: DENY
--- a/lib/policy/config/testdata/good/challengemozilla.yaml
+++ b/lib/policy/config/testdata/good/challengemozilla.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+bots:
+- name: generic-browser
+  user_agent_regex: Mozilla
+  action: CHALLENGE
--- a/lib/policy/config/testdata/good/everything_blocked.yaml
+++ b/lib/policy/config/testdata/good/everything_blocked.yaml
@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+bots:
+- name: everything
+  user_agent_regex: .*
+  action: DENY
--- a/lib/policy/policy.go
+++ b/lib/policy/policy.go
@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package policy

 import (
-	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
@ -11,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promauto"
 	"github.com/yl2chen/cidranger"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/yaml"

 	"github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/lib/policy/config"
 )
@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ func NewParsedConfig(orig config.Config) *ParsedConfig {

 func ParseConfig(fin io.Reader, fname string, defaultDifficulty int) (*ParsedConfig, error) {
 	var c config.Config
-	if err := json.NewDecoder(fin).Decode(&c); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("can't parse policy config JSON %s: %w", fname, err)
+	if err := yaml.NewYAMLToJSONDecoder(fin).Decode(&c); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("can't parse policy config YAML %s: %w", fname, err)
 	}

 	if err := c.Valid(); err != nil {