Blog Security The Web Scraping Problem, Part 2: Use Cases that Require Scraping David Sénécal works for Akamai as a Director of Engineering — Fraud and Abuse and is the author of The Reign of Botnets . He is passionate about improving internet safety and is an expert in online fraud and bot detection . He has over 25 years of experience working with web performance, security, and enterprise networking technologies across various roles, including support, integration, consulting, development, product management, architecture, and research. In the previous blog post in this series, we took a broad look at botnets and scraping — how much internet traffic they drive, their intent, and how their activity varies by industry. Now, we’ll dive into the main use cases that require scraping. Good bots A bot activity is considered “good” when its operator has positive intent and when its activity does not negatively impact site performance, availability, reputation, or revenue.…