Blockscraping.com - information about blocking scraping

This site is dedicated to providing information about web scraping and even more so on supplying information about how to block it. The site is created and maintained by Sentor, a global provider of managed security services. We provide managed services to detect and block scraping for sites with large online databases.

The information on this site is based on the experiences we have gained during the years providing our anti scraping services and working with the problems and challenges related to preventing web scraping.

The main goals of this site are to

• Raise awareness about web scraping
• Share news and information with people interested in the problem
• To help out with advice for people interested in blocking scraping

To prevent screen scraping is by no means a trivial task and in most cases and it demands both technical solutions as well as dedicated resources to succeed. The enemy isn´t usually just a spider (most of the spiders are normally welcome) but a dedicated individual with tailor made screen scraping software that will go to great lengths to circumvent any blocking implemented.

If you have questions regarding screen scraping or how to handle it, feel free to contact us and we will do our best to help you.