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    Screen-scraping ethics

    I’ve been struggling with this for quite a while now - how ethical is it to retrieve data from a website to be used within your own application? The information exists for the sole purpose of informing the public, so surely by further utilising this data and disseminating it, I’m giving the original author a hand. Then why do websites specifically prohibit this sort of behaviour?

    While this article doesn’t answer all of my questions, it does provide good guidelines on data scraping, something which I will strive to abide to in the future.