cylon 15 Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 It looks like MBS is pulling the Parental/Content Rating tag from TMDB which doesn't have a rating for most Australian movies. IMDB does have these ratings It would be good if there was an option to set the preference for where to pull metadata from on a field by field basis.
ebr 15484 Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 IMDB charges for access to their metadata. We can only use free providers.
cylon 15 Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 (edited) Hmm, that is a bit of a stumbling block. If someone pays for access to the IMDB API and then embeds their API key in an IMDB plugin and charges for said plugin would that fall within the usage policy for the plugin? Or does each unique IP accessing the metadata need their own API key? Edited December 9, 2013 by cylon
ebr 15484 Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 IMDB will not allow you to re-sell their data. Also, last I checked, their data was very expensive.
cylon 15 Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 OK, thanks for clearing that up. It is very interesting that the MetaBrowser IMDB plugin does not require an API key while the Rotten Tomatoes plugin does. It looks like I am going to have to go back to using MetaBrowser for country specific parental/content rating metadata.
ebr 15484 Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 MetaB is probably scraping the data from a web page or obtaining it some other manner. Unfortunately, that is explicitly illegal in this country so I'm not willing to do that in MB. 1
cylon 15 Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 Ok, thanks, that is perfectly understandable.
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