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How Stack Overflow fends off scraping bots

How Stack Overflow fends off scraping bots

Update: 2024-07-30
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As Josh explains, DDoS attacks aim to take down a website, while bot scrapers try to gather as much data as possible without getting caught.

Josh Zhang is a staff site reliability engineer (SRE) at Stack Overflow. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

ICYMI: In 2022, Josh wrote an article for our blog about how Stack defends itself against DDoS attacks.

Stack Overflow user Serge Ballesta won a Lifeboat badge for answering What does |= mean in c++.

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How Stack Overflow fends off scraping bots

How Stack Overflow fends off scraping bots

Ryan Donovan, Josh Zhang, Eira May