Is casual web scraping strongly frowned upon on this site?

Question

Not aiming to reproduce your site, just a fun example script

Comments

I dunno… but it most likely is. No hard evidence to support this, but I doubt web scraping will be applauded much here. Js

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http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/41507/do-you-have-a-pokemon-database-api?show=41507#q41507

Answer 1

In general, yes it is frowned upon, because it increases hits on the site and could potentially slow down the site for others. Though that is not a huge issue because we have automatic measures in place to prevent scrapers from downloading many pages at once.

If you want Pokemon data, see the question that Sciz posted: http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/41507/do-you-have-a-pokemon-database-api

Comments

I swear to god if this site slows down anymore I will age a thousand years before it starts up!
Thanks for preventing it Pokemaster! :D