What problem does it solve?
Prevents unlawful or harmful web scraping by enforcing robots.txt checks, terms-of-service review, rate limiting, and privacy-aware data handling so teams can collect public web data without exposing themselves to legal or reputational risk.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Compliance-first checks: Automatic robots.txt validation and guidance to consult site terms before scraping protected paths.
- Polite request discipline: Built-in rate limiting, jitter, exponential backoff, 429 handling, and session header conventions including a contact email.
- Privacy & data handling: Guidance to avoid collecting PII, minimize storage, and maintain audit trails for GDPR/CCPA safety.
- Use Cases: Product price monitoring, public listing aggregation, market research from publicly accessible pages, and safe data collection for analytics.
Quick Start
Check robots.txt for the target domain, create a polite HTTP session with a contact email, and fetch pages with at least a 2 second delay while handling 429 responses and exponential backoff.