Akamai bot manager

Hi. Is anyone experienced with akamai bot detection system? I'm wondering how it works, I've written the most basic puppeteer bot and it doesn't block me. I've seen their script and I should fail at each of their checks but somehow it works. The only thing I've encountered a few times was block for about 2 minutes. Anyway, I think it was some website internal check caused by too many requests rather than akamai. How it works, is there any pattern or they are banning in some random moment?

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@magnetohall Thanks man but nah. I'm just looking for explanation why the fuck they don't ban the simplest clicker making dozens of requests per sexond. In addition, I've checked it on 2 completely different websites, same result.

high level overview is available on Akamai's page. offers a fair outlook of what to expect, if you have any familiarity with maintaining web applications ( or simply, why you would want to protect a site using bot protection )

https://www.akamai.com/us/en/products/security/bot-manager.jsp

tl;dr

learning based on rules and behavior of browser activity isn't instant for every type of infraction. overall the idea is not to necessarily block people from the site ( how do you distinguish an ' attack ' from a rush of interest about your product )
but to allow potential payers the most access ( by way of being available and operating at high performance to make the selling process easier ). your scraper will get away for awhile, maybe a long time; but your profile definitely ends up on a grey list, as soon as the powers that be decide your type of traffic doesn't convert to sales, it will be limited ( bans for periods of time or directed to cached versions of the site as opposed to being directed to more real time resources )