title: Is web scraping allowed?
body: <p>I'm working on a project that requires certain statistics from another website, and I've created an HTML scraper that gets this data every 15 minutes, automatically. However, I stopped the bot now, as in their terms of use, they mention they do not allow it.</p>
  
  <p>I really want to respect this, and especially if there's a law prohibiting me from taking this data, but I've been contacting them through email several times without a single answer, so now I've come to the conclusion that I'll simply grab the data, if it is legal.</p>
  
  <p>On certain forums I've read that it IS legal, but I would much rather get a more "precise" answer here on StackOverflow.</p>
  
  <p>And let's say that this is in fact not illegal, would they have any software to spot my bot making several connections every 15 minutes?</p>
  
  <p>Also, when talking about taking their data, we're talking about a single number for each "team", and this number I will transfer in to our own number.</p>