[mythtv] imdb replacement? themoviedb.org
Travis Bell
travisbell at me.com
Thu Nov 13 00:29:03 UTC 2008
Hey Anduin,
I'd be curious to get more information with what you mean with a few
of your last comments.
1) TMDb is actually based on OMDB just with an easier to use API and a
focus around fan art and posters. As a media center enthusiast myself,
I've been able to tailor TMDb to be more of a "resource for media
center enthusiasts BY a media center enthusiast".
2) All of the content on TMDb has originated from 3 sources. OMDB,
movie-xml.com and user submitted. We don't do any scraping, nor do we
plan to based on as you mentioned, ticket #27.
3) Further to my point #3, were you under the impression after reading
ticket #27 we _were_ going to start scraping IMDb? I thought that
ticket was pretty clear that we were never going to do this. We want
our content to be 100% user generated much like Wikipedia.
In regards to what I consider to be "abuse" well, yesterday a couple
of IP's were scraping every single page on our site. That's abuse.
XBMC hits our API around 8000 times a day. That's NOT abuse. I
wouldn't very concerned with this. If you stay legit there's no worry
of anything happening.
Hope that clears some stuff up, all I am trying to do is create the
best open source movie data round and unlike other choices out there
make it as easy as possible for developers and applications like Myth
use that data.
Cheers,
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Travis Bell
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