[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,

--
Travis Bell







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