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> Can we finally scrape and get rid of IMDB? I'd love to put all of their content on a wiki and be done with it. Just because you can scrape the content legall
by thekyle 7y ago
> Can we finally scrape and get rid of IMDB? I'd love to put all of their content on a wiki and be done with it.
Just because you can scrape the content legally does not mean you can also republish it on your own website.
- echelon 7y ago> Just because you can scrape the content legally does not mean you can also republish it on your own website. Except IMDB copied all of its data by scraping publicly available data posted to Usenet back in the day. And they still rely on volunteer contributions. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb#History