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He wrote a web scraper. It’s publicly available data.

• mavhc 6y ago
  https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/ https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/ https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/getting-started/daily-file-exports https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/getting-started/daily-fi... No need to web scrape
• CharlesW 6y ago
  That's not how it works. https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/can-i-use-imdb-data-in-my-software/G5JTRESSHJBBHTGX# https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/can-i... > Limited non-commercial use of IMDb data is allowed… > The data must be taken only from the datasets made available (see IMDb Contributor Datasets. You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar online data gathering and extraction tools on our website. > The data can only be used for personal and non-commercial use and must not be altered/republished/resold/repurposed to create any kind of online/offline database of movie information (except for individual personal use). > You must acknowledge the source of the data…
  • vuciv1 6y ago
    I scraped it from a source that allows scraping :)
    • CharlesW 6y ago
      IMDB, TMDB, OMDb, and the 10+ other services that do this all prohibit that. I'm not trying to persuade you that stealing intellectual property is bad. I just thought it was funny that you'd whine about a $99 fee with one hand, while content-marketing an app that depends completely on someone else's data with the other.