Stop Web Scraping with Prosopo

What is Web Scraping?

Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting data from websites. This is often attempted by bots that navigate pages and collect information at scale. While some scraping is harmless and even helpful (like for search engine indexing), many bots scrape data without permission, infringing on privacy and server resources.

Why is Scraping a Problem?

Unsanctioned scraping can lead to:

• Intellectual property theft
  • The current rush to AI is making this a hot topic, as many companies are scraping data to train their models.
• Server overload
• Competitive data mining
• User experience degradation

In particular, privacy-oriented platforms need protection from bots that bypass consent and harvest personal information.

Trends in 2026

Year on year, searches for scraping have exploded, driven by interest in AI and data mining. Many website owners and content producers are concerned about the implications of unsanctioned scraping on their business models and user privacy. People want to protect their data to ensure it is not used without consent.

How Prosopo Protects Against Scraping

Prosopo distinguishes legitimate visitors, search crawlers and authorised AI agents from scraping infrastructure on every request — policy-driven, not all-or-nothing:

• Network-wide behavioural modelling. Headless browsers, Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium and the latest scraping frameworks all leave behavioural fingerprints. Our platform catalogues them continuously, so a toolkit caught on one site is recognised on every other site on our platform.
• Residential proxy and real-device farm detection. Modern scrapers rotate through residential IPs and real-device farms to look like ordinary visitors. Prosopo's risk scoring labels those networks even when individual IPs have clean reputations.
• Out-of-country ASN surge detection. Sudden bursts from hosting networks or unusual geographies trigger automatic step-up verification on that traffic without slowing legitimate users.
• Advanced ML adapting in real time. Models retrain continuously against new scraper variants, so detection improves while the scrape is still active.
• Agent-aware policy. Trusted crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot) and authorised AI agents stay welcome; unauthorised automation is sent through a CAPTCHA challenge-response or blocked outright. Access Control rules let you encode the policy per endpoint without code changes.

Real visitors and trusted agents get through invisibly; scraping infrastructure stops at the door.

Recommended products

• Access Control — block hosting ASNs, TLS fingerprints and user agents associated with scraping toolchains.
• API Protection — put bot-aware verification in front of catalogue, search and content APIs.
• Risk Scoring — surface a 0–1 score per request so your backend can rate-limit or throttle suspicious patterns.