WEB SCRAPING IN GAMING & BETTING Web scraping is an automated technique for mining information from websites, without the business owner’s consent, including:
Betting odds
Content
Pricing
Odds are scraped from gambling sites by competitors to manipulate odds to their own advantage.
Scraping has a severe impact on site infrastructure and disrupts the customer experience.
The strain on infrastructure creates on average
£12m in costs for the business. SCRAPER BOTS THREATEN THE GAMING & BETTING INDUSTRY WITH:
Exceeded website capacity
In-play abuse
Arbitrary betting
$ Bonus abuse
2%
Account takeover
Scraper bots can make
hundreds of requests per second
of total online revenue is lost to web scraping
$ The average user makes
one request every 3 seconds Sources: https://www.netacea.com/blog/ice-london-evolving-conversations https://www.netacea.com/what-is-web-scraping