It is not illegal (in the US, but keep in mind not everyone on this site is US-based nor are the companies that might get targeted by a spider written here).
However, it may be unethical.
"Please don't do this to our site and our property and our data."
"Yeah, well, screw you. I'm doing it anyway."
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You can always work around them banning your IP by using spider.com. They have millions of IPs and allow you to crawl anything and not get blocked.
A terms of service is not the law, there is nothing illegal about scraping a website. Read: eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/ninth-ci...
It is not illegal (in the US, but keep in mind not everyone on this site is US-based nor are the companies that might get targeted by a spider written here).
However, it may be unethical.
"Please don't do this to our site and our property and our data."
"Yeah, well, screw you. I'm doing it anyway."