Is It Ethical to Scrape Whole Website (robots.txt) Without Violating Terms? or How to Scrape Whole We

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Ethically, scrape whole website (robots.txt) is a gray zone. Just because it's *allowed* doesn’t mean it’s *right*. Some sites don’t update robots.txt properly, and scraping everything can overload servers.

Tools like Scrapy or BeautifulSoup can help, but always add delays between requests.

Also, check terms of service—some sites ban scraping even if robots.txt permits it.

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