I've written a lot of scrapers myself and let me start off by saying there is no such thing as a site that can't be scraped. You can add in honey-pots all day l

I've written a lot of scrapers myself and let me start off by saying there is no such thing as a site that can't be scraped. You can add in honey-pots all day long and at the end of the day once I've discovered my bot has been detected, I'll find a way around it. If the content is worth scraping and the site owner doesn't have an API (free or pay to use), then people will find a way to get the data regardless of what you do. A well-intentioned article that puts forth a few great ideas for amateurs, but at the end of the day it's wasted time and effort that could have been better spent, oh I don't know, developing an API for your users instead. If I want data I'll get the data, I always win.