How to stop Site from Scraping my site

Question

I have this songs site what ever data it has same is being displayed in other site even if i echo "hello" same is done on other site does any body know how can i prevent that just getting in more depth i found out that site is using file_get_contents() how can i prevent him from doing that

Answer 1

You said file_get_contents was being used.

A URL can be used as a filename with this function if the fopen wrappers have been enabled. See fopen() for more details on how to specify the filename. See the Supported Protocols and Wrappers for links to information about what abilities the various wrappers have, notes on their usage, and information on any predefined variables they may provide.

To disable them, more information is at http://www.php.net/manual/en/filesystem.configuration.php#ini.allow-url-fopen

Edit: If they go and use CURL or an equivalent after this, try and mess with their script by changing the HTML layout, etc. If that doesn't help, try and locate the IP of the script host, and make it return nonsense ;)

Edit2: If they use an iframe use javascript to redirect on iframe detection

Answer 2

Or you can even generate rubbish information just for that crawler, just to mess the "clone" site.

The first question to be answered is: Have you identified the crawler getting the information from your site?

If so, then you can give anything you want to this process: Nothing (ignore / block), a message telling the owners to stop getting your information, give them back rubbish contents, ...

Anyway, the first step is doing things properly. Be sure that you site has a "robots.txt" with the accepted policy for crawlers.

Answer 3

Well, you can try to dermine their IP address and block it