PROTECTING WEB APPLICATIONS FROM WEB SCRAPPING

Abstract

With the beginning of the World Wide Web, enormous information and sensitive data have become readily available anywhere. Today's world is transformed into an environment that always requires new data amounts collected from the web worldwide. These last years this demand dramatically was periodically increased. The need for more data leads companies to invent and use web-scraping using programming language scripts that will continually explore and get information from different websites worldwide. In the right hands, this technique was used to provide valuable information used in data science, but in the wrong hands, this technique was used to collect sensitive data that affected the big E-commerce websites by collecting sensitive information and displaying them on the opponent websites. This damaged the authority and data integrity of the different web applications worldwide. This project identifies the problem of web-scrapping, the methods used to prevent web scraping, and the procedures used to accomplish the paper objective.