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42.9% of the 35 Music & audiosites we tested run a managed anti-bot or WAF. That is a homepage-level reading — the listing, search, and account pages people actually scrape are usually more protected.
Vendors in this category
| Site | Protected | Anti-bot / WAF |
|---|---|---|
| 7digital.com | Open | — |
| anchor.fm | Open | — |
| audible.com | Open | — |
| audiomack.com | Open |
| bandcamp.com | Open | — |
| beatport.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| boomplay.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| datpiff.com | Open | — |
| deezer.com | Protected | Akamai Bot Manager |
| gaana.com | Open | — |
| genius.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| hungama.com | Protected | Akamai (edge) |
| iheart.com | Open | — |
| jiosaavn.com | Open | — |
| junodownload.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| last.fm | Open | — |
| mixcloud.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| musixmatch.com | Open | — |
| napster.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| overcast.fm | Open | — |
| pandora.com | Open | — |
| podbean.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| qobuz.com | Protected | Akamai (edge) |
| reverbnation.com | Open | — |
| saavn.com | Open | — |
| shazam.com | Open | — |
| soundcloud.com | Open | — |
| spotify.com | Open | — |
| stitcher.com | Open | — |
| tidal.com | Protected | DataDome |
| traxsource.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| tunein.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| ultimate-guitar.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| whosampled.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| wynk.in | Open | — |
Compare with the rest of the full Anti-Bot Adoption Index (of 1005 reachable top sites, 57.2% are protected).