2022-03-22, 01:26
Hi @Angelinas - just a heads up that the way you're scraping rotten tomatoes is not permitted by their terms of service and they've been known to take legal action against unauthorised use of their data.
You have to pay fandango for license to use that data. This reason is why omdb api only provides a subset of rotten tomatoes data rather than all of it, and why each individual user needs their own key (that way it ensures data is only for personal non-commercial use which is permitted)
I'm don't know about metacritic but I imagine that they have similar rules about unauthorised use of their data in other apps - generally all these sites like imdb do.
That's why free apis like tmdb, trakt, omdb, and fanarttv are so important.
Believe me, I would love to use this rotten tomatoes data but it simply is not available freely.
You have to pay fandango for license to use that data. This reason is why omdb api only provides a subset of rotten tomatoes data rather than all of it, and why each individual user needs their own key (that way it ensures data is only for personal non-commercial use which is permitted)
I'm don't know about metacritic but I imagine that they have similar rules about unauthorised use of their data in other apps - generally all these sites like imdb do.
That's why free apis like tmdb, trakt, omdb, and fanarttv are so important.
Believe me, I would love to use this rotten tomatoes data but it simply is not available freely.
