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Understanding how to bypass IP bans is essential to anyone who wants to collect web data at any scale.

If you’re not using AI, you’re being left behind. Ever since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, this is the message developers are constantly hearing.

In this article, I’llexplain the problem of anti-bot technology for web scraping developers through the lens of the anti-bot distribution curve (a view of the top 250,000 websites and the relative complexity of their anti-bot tech) and the landscape of anti-bot tech across the web.

Web scraping challenges, ranging from IP bans and data accuracy to legal compliance issues, can trip up businesses trying to use web data to fuel machine learning and to make better decisions.

Web scraping is when you extract data from the web and put it in a structured format.