A scraping bot, also known as a web scraping bot, is an automated software designed to autonomously gather data from websites by mimicking human browsing behaviors, differing from traditional scraping scripts which do not interact with web pages. While both bots and scripts aim to extract data, bots typically utilize browser automation tools like Selenium or Puppeteer to interact with web elements and can navigate through multiple pages, a process known as web crawling. These bots face challenges such as rate limiting, CAPTCHAs, fingerprinting, and honeypots, which are measures implemented by websites to guard against automated data collection. To overcome these obstacles, solutions such as Scraping Browser and Bright Data offer tools that integrate with automation libraries to handle anti-bot defenses like CAPTCHA solving and IP rotation. Building an effective scraping bot requires a comprehensive technology stack and an understanding of the ethical implications and technical hurdles involved in the process.