2012-01-06, 09:13
bodrick Wrote:Not official in any shape and could easily be yanked at any time and when I tried today timed when doing a query.
You're right about not being official and could be taken down. Having said this, the Media Manager for Mac is using this way and its works pretty well so far. Appears much faster than scraping from imdb.com and time out issues are occasional, but not all the time.
On a side note, I have a specific interest as I am living in China, where imdb.com is blocked, but imdbapi.com remains open.
Depending how difficult it is to code, it may be a nice option to have imdbapi.com as well?
Last thought - do you happen to know how the imdb ios app is pulling its information? I am asking because this app works in China although imdb.com is blocked, which implies that it must get its info over an API or some other source?
Thanks for your considerations!!!