2 Mar 2009 12:18
imdbpy and imdb licences/access terms
Hi, I was just tinkering with imdbpy and looking through the source. From what I can gather, imdbpy functions as some sort of web scraper. Now, looking at the imdb terms and conditions, it seems the only "interface" provided is ftp access to compressed text files. In fact, the terms and conditions explicitly forbid screen/web scrapers. What I would like to know is: - are my assumptions above correct? - Does imdbpy have a special license from imdb to provide this package? - Do I need to get special permission for imdb to actually use this package (or at least the query functions)? Thanks, Andre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H
At the same time, you can download IMDbPYKit 1.0, the new web
interface of choice for IMDbPY. Mostly developed by H. Turgut Uyar,
IMDbPYKit has a lot of nice feature (e.g.: it can output data in
both XML and HTML).
There are a lot of new feature in this IMDbPY release, like support
for keywords, support for top250/bottom100 lists and the ability
to export information in XML. Many other minor features and a lot
of bug-fixes are included!
As usual, everything is available from here: 
> imdb/parser/common/cutils.c:63:20: error: Python.h: No such file or
> directory
Looks like you're missing the python-dev package, used to compile
an (optional, but suggested) C module.
Let me know if it solves the problem.
As an extreme measure, you can add the "--without-cutils" command
line argument to exclude the cutils.c module, but...
Bye,
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