Data scrapers and price crawlers are common visitors to most websites. In particular, eCommerce sites, booking platforms and service marketplaces are frequent targets of these robots.
While some data scrapers or price crawlers may be acceptable or even welcomed by websites, many are unwanted and comprise a site’s performance for actual customers or weaken the competitive position of companies by reselling scraped data and prices to competitors.
Access Watch gives websites a complete breakdown and in-depth profiles of all their visiting crawlers along with which website assets are being scraped. With this intelligence, website operators may choose to allow or block this robot activity directly in their dashboard.