[mythtv-users] IMDB script, no covers
Raymond Wagner
raymond at wagnerrp.com
Fri Dec 5 05:43:28 UTC 2008
Joe Wilson wrote:
> I've had the same problem, added over 500 divx videos to a new hard drive.
> It got the data for the videos fine, but the pics were bogus. I found a few
> other places to get the pics in bigger size.. I went for the movie posters
> intead...Looks like the images IMDB is using is in a flash format now...?
>
The images are still normal HTML. There is just a bit of javascript to
prevent right clicks. If you want, you can still grab posters manually.
The bigger issue is that the IMDB terms of service do not allow their
website to be scraped by bots. As such, the IMDB scraper will no longer
be updated.
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