1) Web scraping is not "illegal" 2) I haven't the slightest clue why you think scraped data can't be used in a publication - some results from first page of Go

1) Web scraping is not "illegal" 2) I haven't the slightest clue why you think scraped data can't be used in a publication - some results from first page of Google Scholar: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878029617300464 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187802961... https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098020918196 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/004209802091819...