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A comment on IMDB Terminal Browser.

Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by thrown-0825 on Monday August 18, 2025 @01:19AM (#44937648)
How does this access the IMDB api? I thought amazon had some pretty extreme pricing tiers for that.
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Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by 1f97 on Monday August 18, 2025 @03:17AM (#44938190)
it doesn't. it uses https://www.themoviedb.org/ and not imdb
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Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by vidyesh on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:46AM (#44938877)
It uses both.
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Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by vidyesh on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:43AM (#44938861)
It scrapes.
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Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by countmora on Monday August 18, 2025 @08:34AM (#44939871)
Don't want to be that guy, but [1] says

>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.

[1] www.imdb.com/conditions/

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Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by vidyesh on Monday August 18, 2025 @09:06AM (#44940178)
I am not disagreeing with you, I was just pointing out that the cli tool does not use the API but scrapes.
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