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    Sounds like you're just trying to steal SO users/traffic rather than produce anything useful and screen-scraping is a bad idea for an offline app. Commented Jun 29, 2009 at 4:59
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    @Jonathan, that's a totally ignorant and unnecessary comment. In this case I was considering make an AIR app, of which the sole purpose is to extend the functionality of SO, and for this same reason there's some 20+ twitter apps. Are they stealing the twitter community? Simply, there's things I'd like to do that I assume the dev's don't have time for. 'Stealing the community' is definately the opposite of what I'm trying to achieve. Secondly, screen-scraping is the only option in this case, since there's no API. Luckily AIR apps can be easily updated to accommodate changes. Commented Jun 29, 2009 at 5:16
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    @Ian: Just make sure you follow the attribution guidelines: blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required Commented Jun 29, 2009 at 5:47
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    The app would be completely based around SO, so attribution wouldn't be an issue at all. Getting good and up to date info to make this actually useful is the problem :( Commented Jun 29, 2009 at 5:56
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    @Ian, my IP is banned now, so I can tell you for certain that if you download more than 80 megs per hour your IP will get banned. Commented Jul 9, 2009 at 10:35
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    @waffles -- You mean they don't make an exception for someone with a nick of waffles?? Commented May 9, 2010 at 22:42