From b8efd3b80e11ff93ac7631579244cd93affdeea8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joao Azevedo Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:20:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add warning --- README.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 186609c..1b510c5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,6 +3,22 @@ `beets-rymgenre` is a [beets][beets] plugin to fetch genre information from [rateyourmusic.com][rym] and assigning it to your albums and items. +## WARNING + +I don't recommend using this plugin! I got banned from rateyourmusic.com in +mid-2016 for an abusive use of the site by using this plugin. The answer I got +from Hossein Sharifi pointed out to scraping being disallowed by +rateyourmusic.com: + +> RYM does not allow (and has never allowed) access via scraping or other types +> of scripts which access the site in an automated fashion. Please refrain from +> doing so until we complete our API, which is currently being developed and +> should be part of Sonemic. + +The API +is [currently being developed](https://rateyourmusic.com/rymzilla/view?id=683) +and I might get back to this project when it is published. + ## Installation The plugin requires [lxml][lxml] and [requests][requests], which you can install