Detection of Price Scraping using Behavioral Analysis

Abstract

Web scraping is also known by some other names like web harvesting and web data extraction basically it is used for extraction of data from the websites on the WORLD WIDE WEB. Or in another way, it can be defined as the process consisting of the extraction and combination of content gathered from the web in a systematic manner. Price scraping is a sub part of web scraping technique which is used to scrape the prices of various items from e-commerce website. To carry out this work bots are used to scrape the site. These bots can be any software or any piece of code. Price scraping can be considered illegal if any competitor is using the scraped prices to reduce his own price to get benefit in his sales. So in order to detect these bots we can use various techniques to differentiate between bots and humans.