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griff / metaz

Two letters better than MetaX
https://metaz.maven-group.org/
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Clicking all choices & IMDB viewing... #41

Open sauders opened 11 years ago

sauders commented 11 years ago

This may have been mentioned before, but two features from metaX that I would love to see in metaZ are;

  1. A button to "click all choices"
  2. An IMDB viewer (If not resource intensive)

Would completely switch to metaZ with these features.

griff commented 11 years ago

With "click all choices" do you mean something like #30? Because there already is something like that.

It is very unlikely that I will add an IMDB browser to MetaZ. Mostly because I believe your browser is for browsing. What I might do is make an optional plugin that scrapes IMDB for data (optional because scraping is against IMDB terms of usage) or add some way of opening an IMDB search in your default browser (I already have something similar for doing a google image search and opening a search result in the browser).

But is the data from IMDB really that much better than the data from The Movie Db and The TVDB for which we already have plugins that are integrated nicely?

sjk commented 11 years ago

What purpose would an "IMDb viewer" serve for you (sauders) in MetaZ?

DVD Hunter has (had?) this useful Autocomplete sheet for displaying previews of duplicate matches to select from for populating metadata: Chalk Amazon That's a mid-2009 image of Amazon matches, before they frustratingly (to many developers and users of respective apps) restricted third party API access.

… optional plugin that scrapes IMDB for data (optional because scraping is against IMDB terms of usage)

Do you know if/how some movie catalog apps, like DVDpedia and DVD Hunter, are using IMDb as a data source without violating the ToS?

griff commented 11 years ago

Well there is an api for imdb it is just not publicly available. I guess they could use that though I have heard that is expensive to do. I also just found imdbapi.org which provide an api for the database data export that imdb makes available for non-comercial use. And then there is just ignoring the ToS and scraping anyway.

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What purpose would an "IMDb viewer" serve for you (sauders) in MetaZ?

DVD Hunter has (had?) this useful Autocomplete sheet for displaying previews of duplicate matches to select from for populating metadata:

That's a mid-2009 image of Amazon matches, before they frustratingly (to many developers and users of respective apps) restricted third party API access.

… optional plugin that scrapes IMDB for data (optional because scraping is against IMDB terms of usage) Do you know if/how some movie catalog apps, like DVDpedia and DVD Hunter, are using IMDb as a data source without violating the ToS?

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sjk commented 11 years ago
imdbapi.org

Cool. And nice that it's still an active project… but loading the site now returns "internal server error" right after I first looked at it. D'oh!