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Comment by hcarvalhoalves | Hacker News Reader

I'm guessing this is against their TOS?

IANAL, so I couldn't tell from the TOS if API use like this is acceptable or not, but at least on the "root page" of app.imdb.com, they say:

For use by clients authorized in writing by IMDb.

-- http://app.imdb.com/

OP: Did you ask for authorization?

The API also returns

  'copyright': 'For use only by clients authorized in writing by IMDb.  Authors and users of unauthorized clients accept full legal exposure/liability for their actions.'

as part of the json with every request made.

Since he is using the API key taken from the official app (see: https://github.com/maddox/imdb-party/issues/8#issuecomment-1... ) i really doubt he got anything from them.

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