SAN FRANCISCO — It turns out the world might not be all that safe for web scrapers.

Craigslist Inc. on Thursday secured a $31 million stipulated judgment against a car-selling website that was scraping auto listings on craigslist.org to reach out to posters to create listings of its own.

The deal to end Craigslist's lawsuit against Instamotor Inc. comes less than a week after a federal judge in San Francisco barred LinkedIn Corp. from blocking access to public profile information on its site to data analytics startup hiQ Labs Inc.