I’m currently writing a Python script to constantly access something via the Internet. For my job, I work with stocks. I want to track the price of a certain stock via Robinhood, and notify me if the price significantly changes (i.e. past a certain amount, in either direction).

I find myself checking the prices a little too much. The idea is that this does it for me.

But I imagine there’s a limit to how often you can (should) ping a server, though. Whether it’s for traffic reasons (i.e. slowing the server down), or if the host thinks I’m trying to scrape the entire website, etc.

That being said, I currently have my script programmed to check every minute. I can definitely have it go even longer.

Is this infrequent enough to avoid legal trouble in this regard?

I just don’t know how much traffic these servers get & if this is to be expected from one user, or if legal trouble is even a thing for running a script like this (idk if people do this).