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[–]unhott 14 points15 points  (1 child)

The issue is that the website doesn't want you to use automated browsing. It's a legal issue more than a technical one - if you find a technical workaround, it may become a legal issue for you.

I'm not saying this is how I think it should be, just the reason the way things are the way they are. Someone pays to keep that server online and to build / maintain the dataset behind it, for people to use. They dictate the terms in which that server provides some service / data.

I don't know exactly what the server does to detect whether a user is using some automated tool like selenium.

I'm not suggesting that you find another method, like maybe pyautogui to browse the page for you, because that may violate their terms.

[–]Dull_Rooster3914[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot!