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Anti-bot protection
Anti-bot protection is any measure a website uses to detect and block automated traffic, ranging from rate limits to browser fingerprinting and CAPTCHAs.
Anti-bot protection is any measure a website uses to detect and block automated traffic, ranging from rate limits to browser fingerprinting and CAPTCHAs. It matters for e-commerce data because it's the main reason a scraping setup breaks: a site that worked yesterday can start blocking requests today without any public announcement. Working around anti-bot protection responsibly means respecting published rate limits and access rules rather than bypassing logins or paywalls, and building in enough redundancy that a block on one method doesn't stop data delivery outright. It's also why most ongoing data feeds need active maintenance, not a one-time setup, since protection methods change over time.
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