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FWIW it may be legal to break terms of use

Interesting. Can you elaborate more on that? I was wondering the same thing with other providers, if I can scrape data from their platforms. On what grounds do you think it might be okay?

On the grounds that there's no law that says someone can put some instructions on their website and you have to follow those instructions.

You should consult a lawyer just in case there is such an obscure law, but I don't think there is. Browsing a website doesn't create a contract between you and the website operator, even if the operator says it does.

It doesn't fit into our plans of building this

Fair enough. Just remember that in case terms of use bother you in the future. Consult your company's lawyer before doing it.

Completely agree - we have been in constant communication with them

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