[mythtv-users] imdp.pl oddities?

[Sarah Hayes]

Anduin Withers wrote:
>> Is anyone else getting odd behavior in the imdb lookup part of
>> MythVideo?  It was working fine yesterday, but suddenly now removes any
>> edits to the metadata I've made and doesn't return anything.
>>     
>
> They appear to have started blocked user agents matching "lwp-trivial/1.41".
> So anyone know of a site where we can comply with the Terms of Use in the
> next week or so?
>
> Yes changing the user agent works, simply switching away from LWP::Simple
> works. I'm not really willing to deliberately circumvent their blocking even
> if it is simple and untargeted.
>
>   
I wonder if that means the number of Myth machines scraping them has 
reached "annoyance" level?  Perhaps they should just provide us the XML 
data as a raw feed and stick adverts for themselves in it? :)  Actually 
that'd be nice piccie, blurb and "Provided by IMDB" along with watermarks.

I also echo the question of anyone know another imdb-esque place we can 
point ourselves at?

Sarah