Scraping

Scraping is an interesting side of web protection. You want bad robots blocked, but good robots (search engines, accessibility tools) and real humans should access your content without friction.

A Dose of Honesty

"Modern" solutions like Datadome, Kasada, and others promise that their advanced, ever-changing virtual machines are so unpredictable that no scraper fleet can break through. The reality is more uhh well different. Protecting websites from scraping is hard and usually comes down to making it expensive — GPU-resistant proof-of-work challenges, rotating obfuscation, and other techniques that raise the cost of extraction without eliminating it entirely.

We do both. But we don't sell scraping protection as a primary feature for a reason.

Where yaan Fits

yaan can be used to protect against scraping. Our antibot detection catches many common scraping tools, and we will offer CDN Integrations that can block suspicious traffic before it reaches your origin. But we don't specialize in scraping prevention. Our core focus is bot detection for account security, form protection, and API abuse prevention.

If You Need Help

If you're dealing with a scraping problem, contact us at scrapinghelp@yaan.ch. We can help you develop strategies to reduce your attack surface, even if some of the solutions involve tooling beyond yaan itself.