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by duiker101 3588 days ago
fair enough but I don't think that's the main purpose. There are many many cases where you would want to scrape something and often people would probably be encouraged in doing so in a "polite" way if websites didn't make it hard.
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Yes, or if they just provided a csv with all the data most people wanted to scrape anyway with a plain English explanation about how it can be used.