Yeah, I sort of assumed anyone interested in this sort of thing would either already be hosting a probe, or find it obvious that they might as well do so. I've had one lurking in my basement for a little over a year now, and it's racked up several million credits which I'm happy to transfer to people doing interesting research cuz I'm never gonna use 'em myself. PM me. You can't spend more than a million a day without special permission...

I read the commercial-use permission differently — I think it's granted by default if you give credit and link to them as per these terms. IANAL but do your own reading: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/commercial-use/

The ATLAS toolset is here, including APIs: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements-and-tools/tools/

Speaking of Github though, if you're looking to take this even further, sharing your scraping and analysis scripts might find even more collaborators and ideas. But I understand if that's not permissible under your work-for-hire agreement or whatever.