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The latest revision of the Materials Use License doesn't prohibit the discussion of things that would violate TOS, so it's open for discussion.
That said, third-party parsers most definitely violate TOS, and while the community reps have more or less said "you can use them as long as we don't find out about it, and we can't let you talk about them" on the official forums, that's a very weak assurance (and there's nothing saying SE might not implement Warden or VAC-like functionality in the client to catch such software). Please consider all the risks involved before using any third-party applications.
For what it's worth, wiki pages can be pulled out using the MediaWiki API. It'd be pretty trivial to implement a web service that holds and updates character status information, though authentication might be a little interesting (I suppose one could just authenticate against the RPC database, though).
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The latest revision of the Materials Use License doesn't prohibit the discussion of things that would violate TOS, so it's open for discussion.
That said, third-party parsers most definitely violate TOS, and while the community reps have more or less said "you can use them as long as we don't find out about it, and we can't let you talk about them" on the official forums, that's a very weak assurance (and there's nothing saying SE might not implement Warden or VAC-like functionality in the client to catch such software). Please consider all the risks involved before using any third-party applications.
For what it's worth, wiki pages can be pulled out using the MediaWiki API. It'd be pretty trivial to implement a web service that holds and updates character status information, though authentication might be a little interesting (I suppose one could just authenticate against the RPC database, though).
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