I did something similar at UIUC very many years ago. I was called to the office of head of Department of Computer Science and kindly told while he thinks it is

I did something similar at UIUC very many years ago. I was called to the office of head of Department of Computer Science and kindly told while he thinks it is cool that I am applying my skills relevant to my field of study, I should stop what I am doing as even simply scraping could be construed malicious if it got the attention of the wrong people in the school.