# Connecting to other people's databases

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connecting-to-other-peoples-databases/83361>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [March 18, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connecting-to-other-peoples-databases/83361 "2005-03-18T03:21:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connecting-to-other-peoples-databases/83361/1 "2005-03-18T03:21:02Z")

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How can you draw data from other peoples’ existing databases? For example, [http://amaztype.tha.jp/](http://amaztype.tha.jp/) can access amazon’s book covers and [finance.yahoo.com](http://finance.yahoo.com) can acess stock quotes. It would be a pain in the @55 to scour all the images/data themselves to recreate their own database, so they’ve drawn data from existing database (I suppose). So is some directory out there that allows you to access shared databases?