Show HN: 5000 best movies

Re:Show HN: 5000 best movies by steve8918 on Friday September 21, 2012 @04:57PM (#4555742)

How did you get this data? Did you screenscrape IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes?

If so, is there a legal issue with reusing this data? I actually don't know what the answer is, I'm curious if there is or not.

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Re:Show HN: 5000 best movies by xaro on Friday September 21, 2012 @05:16PM (#4555847)

Well, Rotten Tomatoes offers an API, and IMDB offers all their data for download in text files.

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Re:Show HN: 5000 best movies by zevyoura on Friday September 21, 2012 @06:47PM (#4556297)

Not sure about RT, but IMDB has some fairly strict rules about how their data can be used. http://www.imdb.com/help/show_article?conditions

IANAL but from my reading it sounds like non-commercial use is ok.

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Re:Show HN: 5000 best movies by rcfox on Friday September 21, 2012 @08:19PM (#4556597)

I'm also not a lawyer, but I think you'd have a very hard time litigating for user-contributed content that has no creative value and is publicly available for download.

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