Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free!
Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free!
cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/3381833
Exciting news for who? Only the site owner is excited that a free resource now requires a subscription
"Yay! Now I have to pay another subscription! I'm so excited! Let's celebrate with them!" - nobody
How the fuck are they "open"?
These guys and ClosedAI should be sued for misleading advertising.
Open… for business!
Opensubtitles.com API is open and free. They are talking about Opensubtitles.org. People seem to really struggle when it comes to reading that 3rd sentence.
Open is not a regulated term. Any company can call themselves open regardless of anything.
well the old api is deprecated.
what you're paying here for is continued support of otherwise redundant part of the website, if you're not willing to upgrade to the new one. The new API is free just like the old one
Any service that is subscription based is dead to me. I've reached my breaking point.
Subscription based services are okay. You pay for water, electricity, maybe a gym membership....
What's not okay is that they paint it as "exciting news!"
Assholes.
You know, it wouldn't be as bad if they weren't trying to make it look like a good thing that takes it from just bad to insulting
No it is, it’s very exciting, for their investors/owners i.e. the only people who matter obv
well the old api is deprecated.
what you're paying here for is continued support of otherwise redundant part of the website, if you're not willing to upgrade to the new one. The new API is free just like the old one
Is the new rest api free?
Yes
So I'm not super familiar with OpenSubtitles as an org.
Is the REST API a mostly viable alternative to the legacy API, or is it really shitty by comparison?