“how to identify and stop scrapers introduction this article is the second in our scraper series where we are deep diving into automated scraping. the previous article introduced the topic and covered the various sources of scraping traffic and their motivations. this article digs…”
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T1585.001Social Media Accounts
56%
“in great detail. these highly motivated and sophisticated scrapers will create large numbers of fake accounts and authenticate into them, then distribute their data request among these accounts such that they get the required data while sticking to any account level request limit…”
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T1593.001Social Media
47%
“how to identify them and at times how to opt out of being scraped. often a list of ip addresses that are used by the scraper is also provided. it is important to review this documentation for any scrapers that might be of interest to you. unscrupulous scrapers will commonly attem…”
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T1593.001Social Media
45%
“companies, competitors and malicious scrapers that go to great lengths to hide themselves and make their detection difficult. more sophisticated approaches would be needed to identify these kinds of scrapers. self - identifying scrapers there are several scrapers that announce th…”
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T1593.001Social Media
43%
“despite attempts to opt - out, those will be treated the same as unidentified scrapers below. details will be provided on how to identify these kinds of scrapers in that section below. unidentified scrapers most scrapers do not identify themselves and do not ask for explicit perm…”
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T1071.001Web Protocols
42%
“. 36 ( khtml, like gecko ) chrome / 40. 0. 2214. 115 safari / 537. 36 ( compatible ; googlebot / 2. 1 ; + http : / / www. google. com / bot. html ) ( 765362 ) however, this scraper used ip addresses from a japanese asn called kddi web communications. this is not an asn that googl…”
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T1593.001Social Media
41%
“by simply presenting the google bot user agent string. this impersonation is a tactic commonly used by unwanted scrapers as they know that most websites and apis allow traffic from these entities because it boosts their visibility on the internet and allows them to acquire users.…”
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T1585.002Email Accounts
40%
“corporate email domains to create the user accounts that are used for scraping. we have successfully used this method to attribute large numbers of unidentified scrapers. you can also identify scrapers through the use of fake accounts. f5 labs previously published an article desc…”
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T1593.001Social Media
33%
“in traffic logs can help to identify unwanted unidentified scrapers. use of low reputation ips ip intelligence can be used to identify low reputation ip addresses that have been used in automated attacks. there are several third parties that provide ip intelligence services, and …”
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T1593.001Social Media
32%
“less sophisticated ones, are not customized for the entity they are scraping and request non - existent resources. an example is a flight scraper that pulls flight availability and pricing across different airlines. such a scraper may request flights to and from destinations that…”
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Summary
Fighting sophisticated scrapers requires advanced detection methods. Discover the techniques needed to identify and manage these hidden threats outlined in our investigation.