Comments on: Where is IMDB’s API? http://blog.hansdezwart.info/2009/05/31/where-is-imdbs-api/ "technology creates feasibility spaces for social practice" Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kevin Vandenborne http://blog.hansdezwart.info/2009/05/31/where-is-imdbs-api/#comment-1639 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:16:50 +0000 http://blog.hansdezwart.info/?p=434#comment-1639 Yeah just a warning for screen scraping:

“Robots and Screen Scraping: You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on this site, except with our express written consent as noted below. ”

There’s plenty of other ways to get data from IMDB now, also it’s only for personal use. IMDB has an API but you have to pay $15,000.00 minimum for it, but as long as it’s personal I don’t think they would do anything about it.

Just a little warning that’s all, since this blog post shows in the top of the search results when searching for IMDB API! :P

]]> By: Malhar Vora http://blog.hansdezwart.info/2009/05/31/where-is-imdbs-api/#comment-1599 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:49:55 +0000 http://blog.hansdezwart.info/?p=434#comment-1599 Checkout http://malhar2010.blogspot.com/2011/02/using-imdb-api-to-get-details-of-movie.html for using IMDb api.

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]]> By: Hans de Zwart http://blog.hansdezwart.info/2009/05/31/where-is-imdbs-api/#comment-1347 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:06:31 +0000 http://blog.hansdezwart.info/?p=434#comment-1347 Great! Thanks…

]]> By: Brian http://blog.hansdezwart.info/2009/05/31/where-is-imdbs-api/#comment-1345 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:30:56 +0000 http://blog.hansdezwart.info/?p=434#comment-1345 Hi Hans, I just wanted to share a link to my new IMDb API that you could use in the future if needed.

http://www.imdbapi.com

]]> By: Hans de Zwart http://blog.hansdezwart.info/2009/05/31/where-is-imdbs-api/#comment-1337 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:34:50 +0000 http://blog.hansdezwart.info/?p=434#comment-1337 Yes, quite amazing that they keep choosing this business strategy. I guess they really need some competition.

I doubt IMDB approves of screen scraping techniques, but the way I used the API is not very offensive. It really is just like using the browser, so that puts it into a real grey legal area I would say (I am not the right person for legal advice though!).

Enjoy!

]]> By: Sharninder http://blog.hansdezwart.info/2009/05/31/where-is-imdbs-api/#comment-1336 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:16:44 +0000 http://blog.hansdezwart.info/?p=434#comment-1336 Well, you wrote this post more than a year back and guess what, IMDB still hasn’t woken up and they stll don’t have an API. Your webapp is really helpful. Thanks.

One question, though, is it legal considering how most companies hate scraping ?

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