Online Hotel Metasearch Engine Stops Scraping Attacks

The hotel metasearch engine has more than 10,000 domains pointed to their infrastructure, allowing multiple points of entry for bot attacks. The site was plagued by web scraping bots, and their traffic data was unreliable for making business decisions. This made it impossible to negotiate optimal rates with their suppliers and pass those rates onto customers, which put them at risk of losing out to competitors.

The company attempted to build their own solution to stop bots from scraping their website content. This was a massive undertaking, requiring significant time and resources to analyze traffic statistics and tune detection algorithms. The solution struggled to keep up with the ever-changing and increasingly sophisticated bot threats. It couldn’t distinguish good bots from bad bots, nor control various regions of identified bad traffic problems.

• Comprehensive coverage: Bot Defender accurately identifies and blocks scraping bots on web and mobile apps and APIs, while still recognizing and facilitating the metasearch engine’s white label affiliates.
• No infrastructure change required: The company did not want to add any more layers to their infrastructure and needed a system that could handle their extensive list of languages. Bot Defender can be deployed anywhere within the existing infrastructure—no changes required.
• Security expertise and support: Bot Defender provided proactive support for scraping attacks with ongoing development, support and expertise. HUMAN offers best-in-class, always available support from a team of experts via Slack, email, or phone.