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OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.
(blog.opensubtitles.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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You realize the developer key is still authentication, hmmm?
Not really, no. Those keys are more or less equivalent to a browser's user agent, difference is you don't choose your own but get them from OpenSubtitles. Motivation probably ranges from "that makes it easy to reject random crawlers" to "we'd like to know the people writing software against our API, or at least have a way to contact them".
You'll also be able to find examples of such keys in repositories in the future in case you don't want to request one of your own but frankly speaking that's a dick move.
To an extent, but it's only really relevant to developers. End users don't see or interact with this at all and aren't required to provide further info.
For 99% of people, this change makes very little, if any, difference. The way it's been worded makes it seem like no one gets to use opensubtitles anymore unless they start shelling out cash.
I was very careful to not say it needs payment