[mythtv] mythmovie grabber issue (ToS)

xavier hervy xavier.hervy at bluebottle.com
Wed Jan 14 13:46:30 UTC 2009


Hi,

I have read at lot of mails about grabber not compatible with the ToS's 
website.
MythMovie at the moment use ignyte. Some people submit a grabber which 
does the same using google. AFAIK this grabber would most likely never 
go to trunk because of the ToS.
The added value of Google is aggregation of different sources into one. 
Google would not welcome software to automatically extract those data as 
the would loose potential advertisement resources for a job they did.
A possible workaround to this problem would be extract the data from the 
sources. Most of the cinema company (i.e. cineworld, empire cinema in 
uk) host the same information for they own cinema (address show times, 
list of movie ...). Creating a grabber for each companies without using 
google would be more work, but I  can not see any company complaining 
because a third party increase their visibility to their potential 
costumers.

Doing this would required to:
- enable multiple grabber for mythmovie at the same time.
- configuring each source independently (as some use the post code, some 
need an identifier of the cinema ...)


Any though about that ?
Xavier

PS: BTW how does xmltv work ? It doesn't seems to care much about ToS, 
Am I right ?


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