They could block it yes, but why would they want to? It wouldn't be hurting anything, you could use something like curl to login via the vB login form and collect any data you wanted. You *could* identify yourself to the site as say, Mozilla Firefox but that may not be playing fair. Do you foresee a particular reason why site owners might want to ban your client? Provided you didn't try to update every second, maybe once every 10 minutes then I don't think you'd get many nasty looks.
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