Uncleaned dataset vs API or web scraping for a good Data Science Project?

Hi,

So I want to do a full scale Data Science project. I've read that it doesn't look that great to just use kaggle datasets and perform ML on it. What about using unclean datasets on some of these government websites? Does that look equally as good as using an API or web scraping?

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