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Your Scraper Hit 187 Pages — Then Robots.txt Woke Up Mad

Scraped 300 electronics pages for a price tracker. Hit page 188, dead silence. Robots.txt changed overnight, serving 403s. Fun times.

DevTools Feed Apr 03, 2026 4 min read

⚡ Key Takeaways

Refresh robots.txt every 5 minutes in long scrapers to catch mid-run blocks
Small ecommerce sites dynamically ban via robots.txt on traffic spikes — proxies cost extra
Ignore tutorials skipping periodic checks; they're setting you up for IP bans

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