>I knew Doordash scraped restaurant websites. After we discussed it more, it was clear that the way his menu was set up on his website, Doordash had mistakenly taken the price for a plain cheese pizza and applied it to a 'specialty' pizza with a bunch of toppings.
If that's really what happened (sounds plausible) that means that you should be able to trick DD even more by designing a website specifically in order to confuse the scraper. Have some cheap dish listed at $50 but in a way that would be scrapped as $5 or something. As long as a human would have no issue parsing the menu and understanding the actual price I don't really see how you could get into trouble, it's DD's fault for having crappy parsers.
I'm not sure I would call a scraper crappy if it was fooled by a site deliberately designed to fool it. It would be like calling somebody's vision crappy if they were fooled by an optical illusion.
Scraping can be an adversarial exercise, but not typically in that manner.
If that's really what happened (sounds plausible) that means that you should be able to trick DD even more by designing a website specifically in order to confuse the scraper. Have some cheap dish listed at $50 but in a way that would be scrapped as $5 or something. As long as a human would have no issue parsing the menu and understanding the actual price I don't really see how you could get into trouble, it's DD's fault for having crappy parsers.