Can I use Pokémon's data of this website for my school project??

Question

Hello, I am a student who is learning a computing course related to programming. The course itself is kind of bad. I am from a Southeast Asian Country. A computing course from Pearson is kind of expensive for us. Some ** business guys modified the course or they did something like lowering the quality. That's just my story.
I am not hoping for any attention.
For that ** Diploma, I have to make a computing research project. They just let us do whatever we wanted. I had no idea what to do. But, I chose Python's web scraping project. I thought that was cool. But, I did not know illegal things or things like copyrights. And, the instructors did not know even what web scraping is. I'm so done. It is just environment thing, I grew up in a country where we can do any cybercrime. The country has no control over it. They have no brain for it.
The point is I want to create a spider program that reads Html tags and fetches pokemon's name and their status.
then, CSV file will be created. I can use images from Veekun's. Thank you.
I don't mean to disrespect anyone or any work. I am new to the internet and forums like this is new thing for me.

Answer 1

It's your responsibility to check local laws, but in most jurisdictions, it's entirely legal to scrape publicly available websites. Additionally, pokemondb.net does not "own" Pokemon facts and stats, so the purpose you describe will be acceptable on our end.

The only request on behalf of this website would be to avoid scraping so quickly that you burden the server. This website's robots.txt asks you not to send more than one request every four seconds, so you should adhere to that in your project.

If there is no specific requirement to build a scraper, you might find PokeAPI more ergonomic to use. Knowledge of REST APIs is very helpful to have in your toolkit as an IT student.