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Practical guides on AI crawlers, web scraping, and content protection, written by the team that tracks 1,600+ of them.
Fundamentals
What is an AI crawler?
How AI crawlers differ from traditional search engine bots, what data they collect, and why they matter for your business.
6 min readWhat is web scraping?
The mechanics of web scraping, why companies do it, the legal landscape, and how AI has changed the scraping game.
7 min readTLS fingerprinting explained
How TLS fingerprinting identifies bots by the shape of their handshake. JA3, JA4, and why it catches scrapers that user-agent checks miss.
8 min readPatched Chromium browsers explained
How scrapers patch Chromium's source code to hide automation fingerprints, and why navigator.webdriver checks no longer catch patched browsers.
8 min readPractical guides
How to block AI crawlers
A practical walkthrough of every blocking method, from robots.txt to edge-level detection, with the tradeoffs of each.
8 min readrobots.txt for AI bots: Complete guide
How to configure robots.txt for AI crawlers. Every directive, every major bot, and why robots.txt alone isn't enough.
10 min readHow to detect browser automation beyond user agents
Detection techniques that work when user agents lie: TLS fingerprints, HTTP/2 parameters, CDP artifacts, and behavioral signals.
8 min readWhy an interstitial challenge page is inevitable
Why passive bot detection fails against modern scrapers, and why an interstitial challenge page is the only reliable way to protect content from AI crawlers.
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