What are eCommerce bots? ECommerce bots are types of bots that are used in all aspects of the eCommerce business. Well-known use cases are customer relationship management, automating purchases, gathering market data, and more. This is a very broad definition,…
Whenever you’re browsing web pages, there’s a high probability that one or more bots are browsing that same page simultaneously as you. But, have you ever wondered – what are bots? And what’s their purpose? Are they harmless or can…
What is user agent spoofing? And what are user agents in the first place? Is it a good or a bad thing? If you’re curious about answers to these questions, you’re in luck. In this article, we’re addressing them all.…
If you’ve browsed the Internet for over, let’s say, 30 minutes it’s highly likely that you’ve encountered a CAPTCHA riddle and wondered how to bypass it. We’re talking about those tasks where you have to decipher a highly distorted text,…
Web scraping is an automated process of collecting data from websites by using a program or a bot (hence the “automated” part). It’s an extremely efficient way of gathering large amounts of data from one or multiple online sources. Usually,…
What are DDoS attacks? DDoS attack stands for “Distributed Denial-of-Service attack”. However, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. First of all, we need to differentiate between the “regular” denial-of-service attacks (DoS attacks) and the distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks). DoS…
There are two perspectives (at least) in every web scraping story: one of the website being scraped and the other of the scraper itself. In this article, we’ll talk about this relationship using a specific example. On one side, there’s…
According to Wikipedia: Bots are software applications that run automated tasks (scripts) over the internet. You can either say there are “good” and “bad” bots, or you can say that there’s only the “good” or “bad” intent of their user.…