Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free!

Moonrise2473@feddit.it to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 964 points –

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

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You just need to move to the new API, which is free, the old one is still available temporarily if you pay

It says one is not able to use the new API for all scenarios

Yeah but the basic "give me my subtitles for this specific movie" very likely still works just fine, because.. that's like the whole reason they exist