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I have been trying to make a script using this website. It is a game, and I specifically have been using forum.nationstates.net to make my script to fetch/scrape some things. The website does have documentation on a public API here (although I don't use this), but aside from that they do allow for web scraping. Could I kindly have *.nationstates.net be whitelisted?

www.nationstates.net is already in our allow-list.

Can I have *.nationstates.net, meaning any child domains too, also added?

We rather don't add wildcard domains to the allowlist -- if you can point us to specific ones mentioned in the official documentation we can consider adding them.

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=16394966#p16394966 "Anything that sends a request to the forums (https://forum.nationstates.net) as a logged-in user, or a forum login request".

This implies forum.nationstates.net can be used. Can I have it whitelisted?

Can you please request it here? https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/RequestingAllowlistAdditions/

Can I please just have it done? I have already provided evidence and this is blatant bureaucracy.

@ThaAH You're using a free account and ask for a favor. We asked you for the docs, and you sent us a link to a forum post, which, btw, explicitly states:

Restricted actions must only be initiated manually. For example, a tool that sends ban requests to the server at five-second intervals, regardless of user input, is executing restricted actions automatically, and is illegal.,

which means that they don't want to allow automated hits to this endpoint.

They said login requests or login actions. Not all hits.

You pointed us to the fragment referring "forum.nationstates.net" url which is listed as "restricted action". Restricted actions are said to be illegal if automatic, this is explicitly stated multiple times in the post you linked us to. Again, if you want to request addition to our allow-list, please specify the endpoint, use the link above and provide us with the official documentation.