# JonasCz/How-To-Prevent-Scraping

The ultimate guide on preventing Website Scraping

Repository: https://github.com/JonasCz/How-To-Prevent-Scraping
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/how-to-prevent-scraping
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-12-08T08:20:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3866, "days_push": 999, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1517, forks 132 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:57.301707+00:00)

## What it is
A comprehensive written guide on techniques for preventing or hindering website scraping, expanded from a Stack Overflow answer. It explains how different types of scrapers work and the trade-offs of blocking them without harming real users and search engines.

## Use cases
- prevent bots from scraping my website
- stop scrapers from stealing my content
- learn how web scrapers work
- block wget and curl from downloading my site
- protect website data from automated extraction
- anti-bot protection techniques for a website

## When to choose
- you want a conceptual overview of scraping prevention strategies
- you need to understand scraper types before choosing countermeasures
- you want a free, readable reference on anti-bot trade-offs

## When to avoid
- you need up-to-date techniques, as the guide was written in 2017 and is partly obsolete
- you need a working tool or library rather than documentation
- you want to build a scraper rather than prevent one

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, security, documentation
- domain: web-development, security, crawlers, tutorials
- platform: -
- tags: anti-scraping, guide, bot-mitigation, rate-limiting, anti-bot, web-server

## Member repositories
- JonasCz/How-To-Prevent-Scraping (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:57.301707+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:32:03.407770+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/JonasCz/How-To-Prevent-Scraping (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:57.301707+00:00, sha c74a39d15af1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.