Remove tv_imdb from upcoming release?

Gary Buhrmaster <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:52:24 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.devel
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With some recent comments on github, it
would appear(*) that it may be time to just
remove the tv_imdb utility (the data is
old/stale, and will not be being updated).

Should that happen for the 0.6.2 release?

Delaying for the next release is, of course,
possible, but I doubt it changes any of
the dynamics (it will just start failing for
the people using it next year rather than
this year), unless there are people who
will get motivated now to provide an
alternative if they know tv_imdb is going
away soon.

As to future alternatives, I will note that,
having used TMDb matching, it sometimes
produced "interesting" results, and OMdb's
(free) API limits can be problematic, but
if the upstream source does not provide
any other metadata reference (some do)
they might be better than nothing.



(*) I think I was vaguely aware that imdb
had restricted access to their curated
data, but since I never used that data, I
mostly did not care.