Originally Posted by
javabytes
Nonsense. You are taking the response from the websites and extracting data from it, discarding the site's markup and displaying only the desired data in your own format. That is the very definition of web scraping. Granted, this only occurs every time a user hits the search button, unlike plenty of other scraping applications that collect far more data in a more automated/repetitive fashion. But it is most certainly scraping nonetheless.
KVS can protest all he wants but this is at best a grey area of law. There have been quite a number of screen scraping legal cases over the last few years.
Some are detailed here. Note that in every one of the airline-data-related cases the
ffending party agreed to stop or was forced to do so. KVS knows this, which is why he hides. It's harder to be served a cease and desist order when nobody knows where you are.