Will using a PR checking PHP script get me banned from google?

Good Day,
I am currently trying to right a link directory application in PHP that will allow for me to automate a lot of my link exchanges (ideally).

One of the functionality that I want to put in is checking the PR of my own link pages and then comparing them to the PR of the link page my link has been put on (I only want to add them if they are equal or higher).

Now, I have come across the PHP script for this, but I am also reading that sites and IP's can get banned from google for running this script. Now I doubt that this script would run more than a few times every day, but I do not want to risk a ban. Does anybody have any experience with this.

P.S. Not sure if this should go here or in the programming section.

 

I fairly positive it's against their TOS.

 

if it is not for honest, manual search results then you can get into a bit of trouble:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66357

 

Thanks, that was exactly the information I was looking for. It would have helped my application, but it is not worth getting banned for.

 

I am too sure about that but I guess if the script does not violate the TOS of Google then I guess there's no reason for you to get banned.

 

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