From: Evan Haveman <evanhaveman@...>
Date: 2008-01-05T09:00:33+09:00
Subject: Re: zed shaw zed shaw zed shaw

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> However, I think the nice people at imdb.com would frown on someone  
> (let
> alone lots of someones) mining

it's actually in their terms of use:
http://imdb.com/help/show_article?conditions

though here's some ruby code for doing it:
http://www.weheartcode.com/2007/04/03/scraping-imdb-with-ruby-and- 
hpricot/

> Of course, we could always just write the scripts anyway and pretend
> we had a more accessible database of titles to work from.

i'm not sure of the contents exactly but what about the dataset from  
the netflix prize?

http://www.netflixprize.com/

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