Im under the Indian jurisprudence and this is what the Indian Information Act of 2000/66F says on the matter,



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Since the administrator of the API has authorised only a certain number of API calls for a network, can it be construed as a violation of 66F clause 2 if we try to circumvent the rate limit even though the information is on public domain?



Is using proxies to circumvent rate limit to scrape data legal?