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Good idea. I personally love Duolingo. But I fear that the course data, which is mostly user contributed, will eventually disappear if the company goes under..
by bayesian_horse 7y ago
Good idea.
I personally love Duolingo. But I fear that the course data, which is mostly user contributed, will eventually disappear if the company goes under...
- kantord 7y agosame, that's my biggest fear
- Vivtek 7y agoThere's a lot of politics involved in that course data, too. That an open-source approach exists is a very good thing.
- zelly 7y agoSome hero should scrape it.
- lambertsimnel 7y agoWould that be legal? I wonder who holds the copyright to user-contributed data in DuoLingo (assuming they're copyrightable). If some of the user-generated content isn't copyrightable, or was contributed by users willing and able to share it with a FOSS project, could only that data be scraped, or would it be too difficult to identify?
- bayesian_horse 7y agoOne way is to get Premium and download the course. I haven't looked at it, but I assume they haven't bothered to do any copy protection on those data packages. Not sure if they contain account-bound watermarks of any kind.