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Scrapfly publishes guide on scraping Marriott hotel data through Akamai defenses

Scrapfly released a tutorial covering how to extract Marriott hotel prices and availability using Python, including bypassing Akamai bot protection.

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Why it matters

This guide addresses a common challenge in travel data extraction: scraping large hotel chains protected by sophisticated anti-bot systems like Akamai. By detailing the JSON endpoints and bypass techniques, it lowers the barrier for developers building competitive pricing tools or travel aggregators, while also highlighting the ongoing arms race between scrapers and bot mitigation vendors.

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Topics: Scrapfly, Marriott, Akamai, web-scraping, python, akamai, hotel-data, anti-bot