SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

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third-party tools that modify or parse game data

The rest of your post was irrelevant.

Parsing can be done by hand.
Parsing is *not* cheating.

There really isn't any counter argument to this.

The only argument you have is that, "using third party tools is cheating". That would be correct. There is no refutation of that. But since you're saying "parsing is cheating", you're dead wrong and it's rather impressive that you've either brilliantly ignored it or simply chose not to understand this simple fact.