Saturday, November 18, 2006

eBay is Scraping?

Caught this story on WebmasterWorld about eBay scraping and sure enough found evidence of the same thing in my site.

The first IP is definitely a stealth bot, it's blocked, yet keeps asking for pages over the last couple of months.

216.113.181.67 "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
This IP address used a banned user agent so it would never be allowed to crawl in the first place yet still asked for a couple of page names it already knew about, weird.
216.113.168.141 "Java/1.5.0_09"
Here's eBay's info so you can block whatever the hell they're doing:
OrgName: eBay, Inc
OrgID: EBAY
Address: 2145 Hamilton Ave
City: San Jose
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 95008
Country: US

NetRange: 216.113.160.0 - 216.113.191.255
CIDR: 216.113.160.0/19
What will they do with the information they collect, sell it to the highest bidding scraper?

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