Tag Archives: Industry Cracks Down on Listing Scraping

The real estate industry is taking steps to prevent scraping — or data piracy — of online real estate listings. Realtor.com said earlier this year that it is making efforts to block automated bots from trying to scrape listing data from its more than 1 million pages per day. “Scraping happens every day, and it’s something that’s surprisingly inexpensive for cybercriminals to do,” Amit Kulkarni, Move’s creative director, said in a blog post detailing realtor.com’s efforts to curb scraping.