In addition to posing a critical challenge to company branding, web scraping threatens sales, SEO rankings and can undermine the integrity of content that took resources to produce.
Industry Leaders
The web scraping industry leaders are Screen-Scraper, Mozenda, Diffbot, and Scrapinghub. Additionally, a number of websites like Freelancer.com, Upwork and Guru.com host ads providing freelance and company web scraping services, as well as ads seeking web scraping services. The latest addition to the web scraping economy is Spinner Bot, a web scraping software that allows users to push requests across multiple proxies.