[mythtv-users] IMDB Python batch update fails to retrieve posters
Raymond Wagner
raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Apr 26 19:06:03 UTC 2009
German Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm using the IMDB python scripts to batch populate my metadata
It is against the IMDB TOS to use robots or scrapers to pull data from
their website. In the last several months, IMDB modified their pages
such that the official mythtv scraper (imdb.pl) started retrieving very
low resolution images, and then none at all. Since scrapers are no
longer allowed by IMDB, instead of being fixed, the scraper was outright
abandoned. The python scraper you are using may be experiencing similar
issues.
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