Is there free api movie information on the internet?

Question

For music, there is the Gracenote CDDB SDK, etc., but is there an online service for getting movie information?

The only solution I see at the moment is to request an IMDB and clear the page.

The problem is that I have a list of movie titles and I want to get things like plot, director, actors, when they are released, get dvd cover, etc.

Answer 1

TMDB has an API, I have not tried it.

http://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api

Answer 2

Rottentomatoes - the best I've found

http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/docs/read/Home

I found IMDB very limited. Some API wrappers provide HTML cleanup, but this is slow and probably against their TOS. The text data data dump does not contain much information, such as extended cast data.

Answer 3

You can try using the API at http://www.themoviedb.org/ . Now in version 3. I used this API, and it is very good.

Flixster / Rotten Tomatoes also offers an API: http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/ . I played with their API and it looks very good.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

There is also a http://www.omdbapi.com/ service which gives you a json result with imdb and rottentomatoes ratings etc.

ex. http://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt2431286&tomatoes=true

(another service will be http://www.the-numbers.com
there, although you would need screenshots ..
they sell api under http://www.opusdata.com )

(Perhaps the question of income and budget will be interesting. The divergence of depression in different dbs - and create it private and associate it with ratings. Compare domestic with international, etc.)

Answer 5

As far as I know, IMDB offers a downloadable copy of the database (with some limitations).

For more information see http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?usedatasoftware

Answer 6

I use the Rotten tomatoes engine, and it is very good, fast and consistent. The only thing is that he does not have a very good way to get trailers if you want to play on mobile devices. But http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io V3 looks very good, and also has the function of pulling trailers.

Answer 7

I downloaded the application from Coolector.com. It is regularly updated, and although it offers registration and payment of a license fee, a fully functional application can be used for free. It contains more than 110,000 films, presented in detail today, 10/22/13. My only criticism is that she lacks character names against the artist.

Answer 8

You should definitely use the IMDB API www.omdbapi.com. It is simple and easy to use, you just add the title or imdb_id of the movie, year and type of response you want to receive as parameters. For example, this call

http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=dark+knight&y=2008&plot=short&r=json

will extract all the information you want about the movie "The Dark Knight" and much more (even a poster image) in JSON format.

I recently made a site http://freemoviesdb.com that uses this IMDB web service in the background to collect movie information.

Answer 9

We recently published a video API

We are working on adding additional features and data sources.

Answer 10

If you are using a Mac, you can try Subler or Meta Z or iDentify. Subler will try to find all the information for the movie from Movie DB or from iTunes, while Meta Z and iDentify will try to find all the information for the movies in which you put them.