[mythtv-users] trailer.pl in MythVideo (was Re: Apple Trailer Downloader)

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/24/2008 03:49 PM, James Sumners wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 06/24/2008 02:34 PM, John Payne wrote:
>>     
>>> I really liked the Myth Apple Trailers 'plugin' but I wanted to see
>>> plot, cast, rating etc in the basic display, before I started the actual
>>> trailer.
>>>       
>> Speaking of which, has anyone actually checked to see if such scripts
>> are allowed? It seems from the Apple Terms of Service (
>> http://www.apple.com/legal/terms/site.html ) linked from
>> http://www.apple.com/trailers/ that it's not allowed:
>>
>> Your Use of the Site
>> You may not use any "deep-link", "page-scrape", "robot", "spider" or
>> other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any
>> similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or
>> monitor any portion of the Site or any Content, or in any way reproduce
>> or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or
>> any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or
>> information through any means not purposely made available through the
>> Site. Apple reserves the right to bar any such activity.
>>
>> Did anyone actually contact Apple to request permission?
> He isn't doing any such thing. Apple is providing the XML data stream
> for people to use. All he is doing is parsing the data, and using it.
>   

Regardless of what he's doing, the trailer.pl script in MythVideo's 
contrib directory (i.e. the "speaking of which" of which I was 
speaking--you did notice that I cut out all of the parts of his message 
describing his script, right?) /is/ scraping the web site.

This time I remembered to change the subject, too.  Hope that helps.

Mike