Web Scraping Legalities

[Markos Gerges]

Hello all,

I have a good list of addresses in the zip codes I am targeting for my direct mailing campaign. I am an engineer and have the software knowledge to make a program to scrape all the relevant information I need. However, I'm concerned on the legalities of scraping utilizing the county's website. I know with scraping before my IP address was literally banned from certain websites due to violating their terms & conditions (non-real estate related). Is there a better way to go about getting the information I need in an ethical & convenient manner?