seems like they are advertising a scraping service -> "Want to get the data yourself?"
Yeah, that's a legal gray area. (also, from looking at the example code, it's unclear what the service is value-adding anyways; you still need to do most of the legwork by figuring out what/how to scrape).
It is not gray at all, it's a violation of their terms plain and simple. They only gray part is whether or not it's enough of a bother to Fandago to actually initiate legal action.
Hopefully they offer him a job before taking legal action over something that petty.
While it is a TOS violation is this data being scraped really hurting anything? I dont think so.
That’s why I said in practice nothing would happen. However, if the data is used to build a competitor or it contains PII, it could be problematic.
Plus it consumes server resources and bandwidth.
And some scrape so aggressively that it's like being DDOS'd.
There’s no login required and consent to TOS is not necessary to access a site, or scrape its data.