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Re: Show HN: DigicamFinder – open-sourced DPReview camera data

#11

Wow, did you get this up in the 10 day time period since they announced closure? It took me 2 months for my project. I think I should really look into just scraping / importing the lens data at this point for cameralenspicker.com. I’ve been hand inputting the data… but it’s just too slow.

The trick here would be to do a static scrape of all of dpreview, and post it on archive.org or similar. It's copyrighted, but I can't imagine enforcement of a discontinued resource.

Amazon is imploding a huge amount of value here.

Re: Show HN: DigicamFinder – open-sourced DPReview camera data

#12
post #11

Wow, did you get this up in the 10 day time period since they announced closure? It took me 2 months for my project. I think I should really look into just scraping / importing the lens data at this point for cameralenspicker.com. I’ve been hand inputting the data… but it’s just too slow.

The trick here would be to do a static scrape of all of dpreview, and post it on archive.org or similar. It's copyrighted, but I can't imagine enforcement of a discontinued resource. Amazon is imploding a huge amount of value here.

it's already on Archive.org https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/11zucov/dprevi...

but it's super slow and hard for the general public to access, and many JS features won't work.

Re: Show HN: DigicamFinder – open-sourced DPReview camera data

#13
post #9

What's the copyright status? The specs you have on there now should be fine, you can't copyright lists of facts. But if you put the reviews up will Amazon come after you?

> But if you put the reviews up will Amazon come after you?

That would be the best possible PR for this project lol

Re: Show HN: DigicamFinder – open-sourced DPReview camera data

#16
Great stuff! Curious if you plan on integrating some of the existing dpreview user reviews and Q&A. I have found those to be quite helpful as well. Also, the sample galleries might be too much to ask for given the storage requirements but wanted to see if this is part of future plans as well.

Re: Show HN: DigicamFinder – open-sourced DPReview camera data

#20
> If you do anything with photography, you probably know that Amazon, being Amazon, is shutting down DPReview.com, which housed some of the most complete data and knowledge related to digital cameras online.

Amazon also owns IMDB. I hope someone is making backups ...

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