I work with a scientific institution and it's still amazing to me that people don't check or ask if there are downloadable full datasets that anyone can have fo

I work with a scientific institution and it's still amazing to me that people don't check or ask if there are downloadable full datasets that anyone can have for free. They just jump right in to scraping websites. I don't know what kind of data you're looking for, but please verify that there isn't a quicker/easier way of getting the data than scraping first.