Re: [Imdbpy-devel] IMDbPY with Google App Engine

2009-01-22 Thread Davide Alberani
On Jan 22, James Rubino wrote: > Since IMDB is owned by Amazon perhaps there is way to get those rules > relaxed if the developer uses the Amazon ad system. AFAIK, they never showed any interest in this kind of business. I fear that anyone has to deal with this fact. :-/ -- Davide Alberani [

Re: [Imdbpy-devel] IMDbPY with Google App Engine

2009-01-22 Thread James Rubino
Since IMDB is owned by Amazon perhaps there is way to get those rules relaxed if the developer uses the Amazon ad system. It does encourage development of the data they make very accessible and lead to new streams of revenue for them. Lets start a partition. On 1/21/09, James Rubino wrote: >

Re: [Imdbpy-devel] IMDbPY with Google App Engine

2009-01-21 Thread Davide Alberani
On Jan 21, James Rubino wrote: > Is monetizing a propriety IDMpy creation using the amazon affiliate > ads a violation of TOS? I'd say "definitely, yes", but I'm not a lawyer. :-/ Basically, everything except strictly personal and non-profit use. Their ToS (especially on the plain text data fil

Re: [Imdbpy-devel] IMDbPY with Google App Engine

2009-01-21 Thread James Rubino
Is monetizing a propriety IDMpy creation using the amazon affiliate ads a violation of TOS? On 1/21/09, Davide Alberani wrote: > On Jan 21, Yoav Aviram wrote: > >> I did the modifications and IMDbPy is now technically working in Google >> App >> Engine. > > Cool. :-) > If you want to share it, I

Re: [Imdbpy-devel] IMDbPY with Google App Engine

2009-01-21 Thread Davide Alberani
On Jan 21, Yoav Aviram wrote: > I did the modifications and IMDbPy is now technically working in Google App > Engine. Cool. :-) If you want to share it, I can integrate it in IMDbPY. > One minor issue: > Google App Engine was unwilling to upload 'lxml' to the cloud, so its using > 'beautifulsou

Re: [Imdbpy-devel] IMDbPY with Google App Engine

2009-01-20 Thread Yoav Aviram
I did the modifications and IMDbPy is now technically working in Google App Engine. One minor issue: Google App Engine was unwilling to upload 'lxml' to the cloud, so its using 'beautifulsoup' instead. Now i need to sort out the legal stuff. Yoav. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Davide Albera

Re: [Imdbpy-devel] IMDbPY with Google App Engine

2009-01-19 Thread Davide Alberani
On Jan 19, Yoav Aviram wrote: > I'm using IMDbPY-3.9 with HTTP and would like to use it withing > Google App Engine. I've played with it, but only locally and not for IMDbPY. > The problem is that using Google's framework, all HTTP requests > must be done using special API calls ('urlfetch'). >

[Imdbpy-devel] IMDbPY with Google App Engine

2009-01-18 Thread Yoav Aviram
I'm using IMDbPY-3.9 with HTTP and would like to use it withing Google App Engine. The problem is that using Google's framework, all HTTP requests must be done using special API calls ('urlfetch'). Any previous experience with this? Is there a ported version of the library? If not - any thoughts