@inproceedings{d09c1a85c08047ddbbe2131e542c0f30,
title = "Detecting Scrapers on E-commerce Websites Using a Reduced Feature Set",
abstract = "The amount of traffic on the Internet originated by web bots has been on the rise for many years. The use of bots for illicit web content retrieval and functional abuse is rinsing high concerns across website operators which are constantly battling these malicious entities capable of bypassing their anti-bot protection systems. In this work, we study bot behavior inside modern e-commerce websites within the travel industry. After an initial analysis of bot characteristics, we describe a pipeline capable of autonomously detecting sophisticated scrapers. We observed that these scrapers can be easily identified using a reduced set of features designed for an efficient and interpretable detector.",
keywords = "Classification, Functional Abuse, Internet Robot, Scraping Bots, Web Bot Recognition",
author = "Umberto Fontana and Elisa Chiapponi and Claudio Costanza and Vincent Rigal and Olivier Thonnard and Martynas Buozis and Herv{\'e} Debar",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 IEEE.; 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks - Supplemental Volume, DSN-S 2025 ; Conference date: 23-06-2025 Through 26-06-2025",
year = "2025",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/DSN-S65789.2025.00073",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks - Supplemental Volume, DSN-S 2025",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "257--258",
editor = "Marcello Cinque and Domenico Cotroneo and \{De Simone\}, Luigi and Matthias Eckhart and Lee, \{Patrick P. C.\} and Saman Zonouz",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks - Supplemental Volume, DSN-S 2025",
}