Hi, I'm interested to hear from anyone that knows about web scraping and detection of this by the third party websites.

Im a complete noob at this but I have a basic macro that opens a website and copies a HTML table element into my Excel spreadsheet every 60 seconds. Every 5th copying sequence (i.e. every 5 minutes), the page is shut down and immediatley reloaded (a work-around designed to deal with too many IE instances flooding my memory), and the process continues. This continues daily from say 10am til 8pm on a typical day.

Is this the type of activity that will get me detected and blocked from the site or is it low level enough for me to stay under the radar?

Many thanks in advance
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