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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon SamyPesse

API Suggestion

Open craigcoles opened this issue 11 years ago • 4 comments

In your 'To Do' section, you mentioned:

Use IMBD or another API with a bigger movie collection that Itunes'

IMDB does not have an API, but I would highly recommend The Movie DB (http://www.themoviedb.org/).

The Movie DB API Docs - http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/

craigcoles avatar Jul 08 '13 16:07 craigcoles

You're correct :+1: I just wrote that off the top of my head (everything in this repo was done in the last 24 hours).

Itunes' movie catalog isn't fully complete indeed. Do you know how The Movie DB's database compares to iTunes'.

If it's considerably better, we'll probably switch.

AaronO avatar Jul 08 '13 16:07 AaronO

This one seems to be pretty good: http://www.omdbapi.com/

Or: http://www.imdb.com/xml/find?json=1&nr=1&tt=on&q=fight%20club

I few years ago I did an improved search engine for imdb, maybe you could do something similar? I took the lazy approach of scraping their top votes movies and push into my own database to prioritize quick search before updated data. http://movies.carlbarrdahl.se

carlbarrdahl avatar Jul 08 '13 17:07 carlbarrdahl

Something interesting might be to add trailers. (Lets be careful about feature creep)

I'll talk over the different API possibilities with Samy as soon as he's back online

AaronO avatar Jul 08 '13 17:07 AaronO

Trailers would be neat, but personally I find they weaken the movie watching experience

qq99 avatar Jul 08 '13 22:07 qq99