for getting movie data from IMDB.
Then I saw this on imdb.com:
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Other Licensing Details: Minimum Price: We offer data licensing packages that are customized to meet your needs with annual fees ranging from $15,000 to higher depending on the audience for the data and which data are being licensed. We are not able to offer any sort of data license for less than $15,000. Data Delivery: Licensed data is delivered via a web service which provides customers with real-time access to XML structured data. We do not provide static, flat data feeds. In order to access IMDb’s licensed data, you will need to be able to implement a web service by using protocols such as SOAP, REST or Query. Licensing customers usually update their data set once per week, though more frequent updates may be available if required. |
Something tells me they wouldn’t be happy with someone undercutting them. :
Main reason I wrote it was boredom at work, combined with the need for an automated way to apply movie meta data to my collection.
I employ the legal department from sportsnimports.com. I’m not scared.
i was planning on something like this but my partner noticed that and was using amazon api instead… or something
didnt you talk about IMDB having an API for everyone to use?
they must have some public data access, otherwise better get yourself a buttload of proxies
bro stick to printing shit by shaun
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XBMC and other media center programs parse data from IMDB. I highly doubt that they’ve paid any such fees.
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Those go and scrape the data from IMDB which I’m sure is no different than the method Kevin is doing it. This had come up a while ago and somewhere in their TOS they have a section about scraping their content.
I can’t imagine them getting pissy about it or even following up on it for smalltime users like you and me. IMO though, if they caught wind of you earning a dollar off of their content, I’m more than certain you will make enough of a blip on their radar to at least warrany a C&D.
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Edit: Fuckin site isn’t much of a database if the information isn’t readily available for the public to play with anyways.
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Those go and scrape the data from IMDB which I’m sure is no different than the method Kevin is doing it. This had come up a while ago and somewhere in their TOS they have a section about scraping their content.
I can’t imagine them getting pissy about it or even following up on it for smalltime users like you and me. IMO though, if they caught wind of you earning a dollar off of their content, I’m more than certain you will make enough of a blip on their radar to at least warrany a C&D. <soapbox> |
Yeah, I didn’t really plan on doing much with it, other than putting the source on my site, and allowing a web service to be queried.
One thing I thought about was to allow the user to optionally pass the regexp, in case IMDB changes something and it breaks. That way its more user friendly and an "admin" isn’t required to keep the service running.
I would be interested in seeing how you implemented the service so I could build a ruby lib
scrapi gem