IMDBPY online game

[Nikolaos Diamantis]

Hello!
I plan to make a web page or a mobile app that will use IMDBPY for a game where the player need to find some facts regarding a movie. I do not plan to put advertising on web page and if I do a mobile app instead I plan to give it for free. Will I face any problems regarding license and use of data from IMDB?

P.s. Bonus question:) Is there a way to randomly select a movie or an actor from IMDBPY?

Thanks
Nikolaos

[Davide Alberani]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Nikolaos Diamantis <niko...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I plan to make a web page or a mobile app that will use IMDBPY for a game where the player need to find some facts regarding a movie. I do not plan to put advertising on web page and if I do a mobile app instead I plan to give it for free.

Nice!
When it's done let me know it, so that I can put on the list of
IMDbPY-based projects. :-)

> Will I face any problems regarding license and use of data from IMDB?

A good question that triggers the usual disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. :-)

As far as I know, as long as you use the information from the plain
text data files (the
ones processed by imdbpy2sql.py) and give the proper credit to the
source of the data,
yes, you can do it.
See http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?usedatasoftware

> P.s. Bonus question:) Is there a way to randomly select a movie or an actor from IMDBPY?

Well, since you'll end up using the data stored in a SQL db, I guess
it will be quite
easy to select a random ID. :-)


Hope this helps, if you have other questions, just ask!

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[Nikolaos Diamantis]

What about using the actor photos?

[Nikolaos Diamantis]

For example I could use sth like:

        person = ia.get_person("Brad Pitt", info=["filmography"])

        image = s['full-size headshot'] 

Is that permitted?

[Davide Alberani]

Hi Nikolaos,
pardon for the deplay in replying you.

Well... I *think* that if the app is free and there are no adds,
you could use the IMDb data, provided that you put a notice
about the source of the data.
But... the pictures are from their site, and not included into
the files they distribute, so I guess it's not allowed.

But again, I'm not a lawyer.

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