Is it possible to scrape all pages of a website using robots.txt? What are the limits? or How effecti

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Yeah, scraping all pages website robots.txt allows is technically fine, but ethically? Eh, depends. Some sites don’t care, others will send angry emails.

For tools, I’d recommend Scrapy with rotating proxies and a custom delay setting. If you’re lazy, Screaming Frog can do light crawling without much setup.

Big tip: Monitor your request headers. Some sites block default Python user-agents but won’t care if you mimic a browser.

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