Given that the request for an API has been denied, what is the current view on scraping data from the website itself to provide a de facto API? The use case for this particular thing I have in mind is just providing a !stats trigger on a non official IRC network. Assuming it has proper rate limiting etc., it shouldn't be much more intensive than a user looking (and be better if I bother implementing caching), and it won't be loading images etc.
Is this likely to get my IP banned, or what are the rules regarding this?
In the case that this isn't allowed, can the request for an API (hint: json <3) be reopened or what?
Is this likely to get my IP banned, or what are the rules regarding this?
In the case that this isn't allowed, can the request for an API (hint: json <3) be reopened or what?