Re:Show HN: Auto Swatch - New-car research that doesn't suck
by vlucas on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @10:24AM
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Those photos are gorgeous. I made http://autoridge.com and I had a lot of trouble finding good vehicle photos. I ended up using the Flickr API to pull in photos for both the website and the mobile app. Most of the resulting pictures are good, some are seemingly random or mis-labeled, but none of them are anywhere near the quality of what you have there.
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Re:Show HN: Auto Swatch - New-car research that doesn't suck
by kmfrk on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @11:05AM
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Just in case you miss it, pauldisneyiv's pointed out that they're by EvoX: http://www.evoximages.com.
Re:Show HN: Auto Swatch - New-car research that doesn't suck
by nicksergeant on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @01:01PM
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My original plan was to scrape photos off Flickr / MFR websites, but I quickly realized that's not even close to legal :). Evox does a great job.
Re:Show HN: Auto Swatch - New-car research that doesn't suck
by vlucas on Monday April 25, 2011 @10:05AM
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Scraping photos is a lot different than scraping data, I fully agree.
But for the pictures, I am using Flickr's API, and it's not illegal. I have read the terms carefully, and since the site it not a commercial one, I am well within the public API terms. I also link to and credit the source on every photo, as I know each individual has the rights to their own photos.