The Scrape Shield Tab in Nubius CloudShield helps protect your website’s content from unauthorized copying, scraping, and hotlinking.
To access these settings:
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Log in to the Nubius Customer Portal.
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Navigate to Services → My Services.
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Select your Nubius CloudShield service.
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Click Manage Cloudflare for the domain you want to configure.
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Go to the Scrape Shield Tab.
Scrape Shield Features
1. Email Address Obfuscation
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Protects email addresses on your website from being harvested by bots.
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Replaces visible email addresses with JavaScript-based encryption, making them readable by humans but not by automated scrapers.
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Helps reduce spam emails and keeps email addresses hidden.
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Recommended: Keep this enabled if your website displays email addresses.
2. Server-Side Excludes (SSE)
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Hides sensitive content from visitors with suspicious behavior.
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Useful for protecting sections of your website from automated scrapers or bots.
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Works by wrapping sensitive content in
<div class="sse">tags, which will be hidden for visitors flagged as potential threats. -
Example Use Case: Show premium content only to verified users while hiding it from bots or untrusted traffic.
3. Hotlink Protection
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Prevents other websites from embedding your images and media files without permission.
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Blocks direct linking to images, preventing bandwidth theft.
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Ensures that only your domain can serve images, reducing unwanted traffic loads.
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Note: Hotlink Protection applies to common file types like
.jpg,.png,.gif, and.webpbut does not affect.cssor.jsfiles.
Best Practices for Scrape Shield
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Enable Email Obfuscation to protect against spam bots.
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Use Server-Side Excludes to control content visibility based on visitor behavior.
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Activate Hotlink Protection to save bandwidth and prevent unauthorized embedding of your images.
For more details, refer to Cloudflare’s Scrape Shield Documentation.
If you need assistance, contact Support via the Nubius Customer Portal.
