[OrgNet]

for IMDb, they have a lot of data that is easily accessible, not sure what is missing though: https://datasets.imdbws.com/...

[tdhoot]

Only for personal and non-commercial use, which is probably not what startups need.

[OrgNet]

process it on your personal computer and use the output in your startup

[dwaltrip]

That intermediate step doesn't get around the license.

[OrgNet]

it depends

[JustSomeNobody]

Why would they have to make it available to startups in an easily accessible manner?

[nitrogen]

IMDB was originally crowdsourced, wasn't it?

[JustSomeNobody]

So, have the data available. But I see no reason why they should have to go out of their way to change their site to make it easy for someone to get it.

[bewuethr]

It started as lists and shell scripts to query them in the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.