Re: Services_IMDB ??

Hi (Helgi, thanks for your thoughts), On 5/19/07, Helgi Þormar <helgith@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi On 5/19/07, Kevin van Zonneveld <kevmaster@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I've written a class that acts as an interface to IMDB, so you can easily retrieve movie information. I'm thinking of submitting it to pear, after making it completely compliant with the coding standards and such (which it is not at the moment, so I do not think I can propose it as is). Well it would be fine setting up the proposal and just stating that the code is not up to the PEAR CS yet

Ok I think I will go ahead like you say then!

But i would first like to know if there are any objections against such a piece of code, considering e.g. the IMDB terms of use? Or are those issues entirely up to the end user/programmer, and is it okay to have that code in pear. And the terms of use are ? For those of us that don't want to read through it all :)

I think the most interesting parts of their terms are: "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." "We do allow the limited use of robots and crawlers, such as those from certain search engines, with our express written consent. If you are interested in receiving our express written permission to use robots or crawlers on our site, please contact our Licensing Department." (full terms @ http://www.imdb.com/help/show_article?conditions) Maybe I can just include their terms in my code, and leave it up to the end user whether or not and under what conditions to use the code. Kevin van Zonneveld Work | http://www.true.nl/ About | http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/ Project | http://www.tabsource.org/