Show HN: MovieChat.org – Archive and Replacement for IMDb Message Boards

Re:Show HN: MovieChat.org – Archive and Replacement for IMDb... by karim on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:30PM (#13655517)

Hey Jim – thanks for doing that! I'm curious, how did you back up IMDB's message boards? Did you scrape the whole website or were you able to find a data dump?

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Re:Show HN: MovieChat.org – Archive and Replacement for IMDb... by 5_minutes on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:37PM (#13655567)

I wanted to ask this too. Did you scrape it or did it via some api? Anyway, cool project, wish you all the best with it.

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Re:Show HN: MovieChat.org – Archive and Replacement for IMDb... by Markoff on Thursday February 16, 2017 @04:35AM (#13658684)

illegally scraped,IMDb doesn't have API for this and automated scraping OP done is against their TOS, not mentioning without consent of users, for instance stole 14 years worth of my posts

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Re:Show HN: MovieChat.org – Archive and Replacement for IMDb... by fwn on Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:58PM (#13662030)

He stole them? You mean they are gone now? Because the closest I can imagine happening is an unlicensed reproduction of your content, your credentials included. ... Like any archive service would do it.

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Re:Show HN: MovieChat.org – Archive and Replacement for IMDb... by thebluecat on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:41PM (#13701353)

I take it then, when you posted these 14 years of comments, you didn't want them available to the public to, I don't know, read?! Thank goodness IMDB deleted them all before we happened across them by accident & violated your privacy.

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