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by niel 1615 days ago
Congratulations on your success, Kevin and team.

I couldn't find this on your website - does Scrapingbee respect robots.txt directives, or is there any other method for a website owner to limit or even just slow down your scraping?

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Would be surprised if they do. My service is on the receiving end of these scrapers and it gets annoying when some "growth hacker" decides to flood the service with meaningless CPU-heavy requests with a bunch of typos in parameter values. The scraping service gets a $.0001 for every $1 of damage they help inflict, so yay, bootstrapped business.
They almost certainly don't