Collecting data from forum for use of community discord bot

[n0remac]

Hello,

I feel kinda silly posting this because I think I might be breaking some rules with this project. For this reason I am asking for permission before proceeding any further.

As the title suggests I am trying to make a python script that will log into our proboards forum and scrape data for use of a bot. We have quite a large role play community with a discord bot that is able to give us some information on recent posts and character info. The thing is much of the info is unavailable unless you log in.

My questions are thus:

Is this even ok for me to do? I read around a little bit and it seems that scraping, especially of use data, is generally frowned upon. My intent is to help the community, but I understand if I am breaking some rules and will stop if necessary.

If logging in and scraping is a no-no are there other tools that might help me? I started looking through the plug ins, but there is kinda a lot to sift through. 

Lastly, if logging in and scraping is allowed can anyone help me locate the CSRF token?

Thanks (or maybe sorry),

N0remac

[Peter]

The stance on this type of thing is that it's not allowed (Terms of Service (see section 19)) due to a few reasons which I will leave for an actual staff member to explain if needed.

Michael , Scott, Brian