IMDB Terminal Browser(github.com)
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IMDB Terminal Browser
https://github.com/isene/IMDB
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off-topic but why is there a vim swap file in the repo? https://github.com/isene/IMDB/blob/main/.imdb.swp
Cool project. I've been using this IMDB interface and really like its simplicity: https://github.com/zyachel/libremdb
It would be great to have an ability to browse all the imdb movies/tv series, not just top 250 - but I like the direction :)
This could be cool. I'm recently scouring lists looking for sleepers made 1930s-1980s.
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, if you haven't seen it yet.
I'll watch it this week. Thanks!
IMDB Virtual Terminal Browser. I was hoping for a console browser.
It's cool.
How does this access the IMDB api? I thought amazon had some pretty extreme pricing tiers for that.
It scrapes.
Don't want to be that guy, but [1] says
>Robots and Screen Scraping: You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on this site, except with our express written consent as noted below.
[1] www.imdb.com/conditions/
>Robots and Screen Scraping: You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on this site, except with our express written consent as noted below.
[1] www.imdb.com/conditions/
I am not disagreeing with you, I was just pointing out that the cli tool does not use the API but scrapes.
First, adding a `.gitignore` with at least the following:
Would help.
Second, committing the generated `gem` artifacts is not a good practice. Either publish[0] it or let those who use it build and distribute it themselves.
0 - https://guides.rubygems.org/publishing/