I think he meant he understood the title as "if you just scrape a website, you're not [meeting the threshold to be a] hacker", which would fit with 'no true scotsman'[0]. At least that's the way I understood it at first. Whether you consider a hacker to be a criminal or a nerd doesn't really affect _this_ particular misunderstanding ;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman