[mythtv-users] IMDB script, no covers

[Friedrich Clausen]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> 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.

Are there any plans to use themoviedb.org?

Cheers,

Fred.