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Dealing with Web Scrapers

brandonrozek.com

Nowadays it seems like every tech company is eager to scrape the web. Unfortunately, it seems like 1 the majority of traffic that comes to this small site are scrapers. While my static website is able to handle the load, the same cannot be said about everyone. Overall, the techinques I’ve seen website owners use aim to make scraping more difficult. Though it’s a balance. The harder we make it for bots to access a website, the more we turn away regular humans as well. Here’s a short and non-exhaustive list of techinques:

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