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Proposal for data batch importing
posted by PaoloSTAFFMOD on December 20, 2012 at 12:49 PM
I have a proposal: why don't you automatically grab some of the information from IMDB automatically? For example, the runtime could be easily filled by querying IMDB (since we always have the IMDB ID). Maybe we could do it at least for the movies with no runtime or runtime = 0... What you think?
Reply by Travis Bell
on December 20, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Hi Paolo,
We've always resisted doing any kind of automatic importing and for 5 years this philosophy has treated us well. We have more contributors and users than ever before and don't feel like this is truly a problem.
It's also important from a legal perspective that we don't get involved with anything "automatic" that may or may not be considered abuse by any other data provider.
Reply by Paolo
on December 20, 2012 at 6:29 PM
Ok. Thank you for the answer! I can perfectly understand your point. Let's contribute then ;)!!!