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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ajm: Quote:
They should be glad dvdprofiler doesn't have the restrictions of All My Movies™ :-
You cannot create your own movie catalog but you can do what you want with the sample database. Please note that the sample database will be rewritten each time you reinstall All My Movies™
So, you can't really get to use it unless you pay for it.
I downloaded it yesterday, out of curiosity, and tried it out. Man it is a mess! Be glad you have DVD Profiler! |
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| Registered: March 28, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,299 |
| | Posted: | | | | This poll was the first time I'd heard of any of those other programs, and I checked out Movie Collector at collectorz.com and noticed that it has built-in IMDb support. I'm curious to know if they're paying for legal access to the IMDb database, or if they just haven't been caught yet.  Does anyone know? KM | | | Tags, tags, bo bags, banana fana fo fags, mi my mo mags, TAGS!
Dolly's not alone. You can also clone profiles.
You've got questions? You've got answers? Take the DVD Profiler Wiki for a spin. | | | | Last edited: by Astrakan |
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| Registered: May 14, 2007 |  Posts: 455 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Astrakan: Quote:
This poll was the first time I'd heard of any of those other programs, and I checked out Movie Collector at collectorz.com and noticed that it has built-in IMDb support. I'm curious to know if they're paying for legal access to the IMDb database, or if they just haven't been caught yet. Does anyone know?
KM I have a licensed copy of Collectorz.com, used prior to DVDP. There program pulls data from IMBD so I image they have to have a pay for legal access to be able to pull data from their database. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,279 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting leo1963: Quote:
I have a licensed copy of Collectorz.com, used prior to DVDP. There program pulls data from IMBD so I image they have to have a pay for legal access to be able to pull data from their database. It's entirely possible. From the IMDB faq. Quote:
Content Licensing at IMDb
IMDb content licensing FAQ:
Q: Do you license the entire IMDb?
A: We will not license the entire database, though hundreds of thousands of titles is over-kill for most uses.
Q: How will the data be transferred?
A:While we are flexible, we supply the majority of our partners with XML data files, retrievable at an ftp site. | | | | IVS Registered: January 2, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 28, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,299 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting leo1963: Quote:
I have a licensed copy of Collectorz.com, used prior to DVDP. There program pulls data from IMBD so I image they have to have a pay for legal access to be able to pull data from their database. Not necessarily. A few years ago lmoelleb developed a program called DVD Profiler Cast for use with DVDP, which did exactly the same thing. You'd edit the profile and launch DVD Profiler Cast and it would automatically grab data from IMDb and populate the DVDP profile with info for you. I sincerely doubt lmoelleb paid a licensing fee to IMDb for this. My point is that doing so is possible without paying licensing fees to IMDb. This doesn't mean collectorz.com doesn't, just that they could. And I was just curious which it was. KM | | | Tags, tags, bo bags, banana fana fo fags, mi my mo mags, TAGS!
Dolly's not alone. You can also clone profiles.
You've got questions? You've got answers? Take the DVD Profiler Wiki for a spin. | | | | Last edited: by Astrakan |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Astrakan: Quote:
My point is that doing so is possible without paying licensing fees to IMDb. It's possible and it is called scraping and IMDb has this to say about it Quote:
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.
from their Conditions of Use page |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Another vote for dvd profiler 184, 49.1% Collectorz Movie Collector 35.2% All My Movies 13.9%  | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RossRoy: Quote:
Quoting Astrakan:
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My point is that doing so is possible without paying licensing fees to IMDb.
It's possible and it is called scraping and IMDb has this to say about it
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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.
from their Conditions of Use page No in fact Collectorz have partnership with the differents sites they use for their differents softwares (Book, Music, ...) and they use a special stream to extract information. I don't know for IMDb but for Amazon they use XML files offers by Amazon to extract data. | | | Regards
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,279 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Cyrille: Quote:
No in fact Collectorz have partnership with the differents sites they use for their differents softwares (Book, Music, ...) and they use a special stream to extract information. I don't know for IMDb but for Amazon they use XML files offers by Amazon to extract data. Ross wasn't saying that Collectorz was scraping, he was pointing out that the program Astrakan referred to (created for a certain other well know program) was doing that. If you look at my post above you'll see I've already confirmed IMDB do license data, using an XML format, not surprising as they are owned by Amazon. | | | | IVS Registered: January 2, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Lithurge: Quote:
Ross wasn't saying that Collectorz was scraping, he was pointing out that the program Astrakan referred to (created for a certain other well know program) was doing that.
If you look at my post above you'll see I've already confirmed IMDB do license data, using an XML format, not surprising as they are owned by Amazon. Never said Ross think that. Just said they have partnership with the differents sources they use. I use some of their softwares and have some contacts with the development's team. No soucy | | | Regards
Cyrille |
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 | JonM | | Registered 28 Dec 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 343 |
| | Posted: | | | | Woohoo! 49.4% and 191 votes. Come on, Profiler is almost halfway! Someone post a sticky thread telling newbies that if they vote, they'll get a link to download a trial of CD Profiler ...  | | | Jon
"When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend."
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,136 |
| | Posted: | | | | DVD Profiler
197 50.1%
Collectorz Movie Collector
135 34.4%
All My Movies
54 13.7%
Ant Movie Catalog
7 1.8%
Other
1 0.3%
ReaderwareVW
0 0% | | | Signature? We don't need no stinking... hang on, this has been done... blast [oooh now in Widescreen]
Ah... well you see.... I thought I'd say something more interesting... but cannot think of anything..... oh well
And to those of you who have disabled viewing of these signature files "hello" (or not) Registered: July 27, 2004 | | | | Last edited: by FunkyLA |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 940 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting maxic76: Quote:
I found a poll at the new movie collectors site - MovieGatherer.com.
Lets vote for our favourite movie organizer! (DVD Profiler, surely ) Just so the voting link is available to re-visitors easier. | | | | Kevin |
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| Registered: April 1, 2007 | | Posts: 2 |
| | Posted: | | | | As of 6/22 @ 8:34 pm
DVD Profiler
240 51.2%
Collectorz Movie Collector
144 30.7%
All My Movies
77 16.4%
Ant Movie Catalog
8 1.7%
Other
1 0.2%
ReaderwareVW
0 0% |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | DVDP gathered 17 while Collectorz got 3... DVD Profiler 257 52.3% Collectorz Movie Collector 147 29.9% All My Movies 79 16.1% Ant Movie Catalog 8 1.6% Other 1 0.2% ReaderwareVW 0 0% Quoting FunkyLA: Quote:
Don't forget to vote! http://www.moviegatherer.com/
We need to have this link on every page in this thread. Vote early and vote often! | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: March 24, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,044 |
| | Posted: | | | | Like Rossroy, I downloaded the program, took a look-see and found out what I allready knew. DVDP is still the best software of it's kind bar none. | | | DVD Profiler for iOS as of 3/5/2013
DVD Profiler for Android as of 5/17/2013 |
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