are a popular and effective means of thwarting data scraping bots. One can set them up to observe a scraper\u2019s activity, which helps in recognizing suspicious behavior and developing countermeasures. The honeypot can then introduce a link no ordinary user should be able to click on, identifying and booting the scraper from the website.<\/span><\/p>\nMessing with the site\u2019s HTML tags is another way of keeping scrapers on their toes. Successful scraping hinges on exact parameters. An attempt will only be partially successful or fail outright if the website\u2019s HTML tags don\u2019t match what the bot is expecting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>Conclusion<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n \nWe summarized quite a complex topic, and hopefully, it\u2019s enough to get a grasp of the idea of how to fight unwanted scraping attempts. If anything about data scraping is certain, it’s that criminals and legitimate companies will continue to rely on it for valuable and timely insights. It’s become just another cost of doing business for the latter. Keeping a step ahead will require more vigilance and reassessment of current cybersecurity strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We live in a time where everyone, from petty crooks to global corporations, understands the value of and can benefit from leveraging the right data. Petabytes of it are out there for the taking, necessitating a fast and all-encompassing collection method. That’s where web scraping in all its dubiously ethical & legal forms comes in. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":48374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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