That's a cool project. Let me know if you need any help. I'm not sure what I could do but it sounds interesting. Here a couple ideas that might help (not tha

That's a cool project. Let me know if you need any help. I'm not sure what I could do but it sounds interesting. Here a couple ideas that might help (not that I condone violating a site's TOS). Have a random time interval between each page download so someone looking at the logs doesn't see a regular pattern. Pick 4 or 5 common user agent strings to alternate randomly between. Go through free proxies, or package up your program and have 5 or more friends run it on different sections of the data you want to download.