Does IMDB provide an API

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I recently found a movie organizer application which fetches its data from the IMDB database   Does IMDB provide an API for this  or any third party APIs available

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Here is a Python module providing API s to get data from IMDB website  http   techdiary-viki blogspot com 2011 03 imdb-api html

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If you need TV information you can try TVmaze com    It s free  fast and reliable  Here is the developer page   http   api tvmaze com

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Here is a simple solution that fetches shows by name based on the query from Krinkle   You can get around the same-origin policy by having your server fetch the URL instead of trying to fetch it directly with AJAX and you don t have to use JSONP to do it   Javascript  jQuery    function getShowOptionsFromName  name          ajax           url   ajax php           method   GET           data   q  name           dataType   json         done function data           console log data               PHP  in file ajax php     q   urlencode   GET  q     echo file get contents  http   www imdb com xml find json 1 amp nr 1 amp tt on amp q  q

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Another legal alternative to get movie info is the Rotten-Tomatoes API  by Fandango

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Yes  but not for free           annual fees ranging from  15 000 to higher depending on the audience for the data and which data are being licensed    URL  -  http   www imdb com licensing

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ok i found this one IMDB scraper  for C   http   web3o blogspot de 2010 11 aspnetc-imdb-scraping-api html  PHP here  http   web3o blogspot de 2010 10 php-imdb-scraper-for-new-imdb-template html  alternatively a imdbapi org implementation for c    using System Collections Generic  using System IO  using System Linq  using System Net  using System Xml Linq  using HtmlAgilityPack     http   htmlagilitypack codeplex com    public class IMDBHelper        public static imdbitem GetInfoByTitle string Title                string url    http   imdbapi org  type xml amp limit 1 amp title     Title          HttpWebRequest req    HttpWebRequest HttpWebRequest Create url           req Method    GET           req UserAgent    Mozilla 5 0  Windows  U  MSIE 9 0  WIndows NT 9 0  en-US             string source          using  StreamReader reader   new StreamReader req GetResponse   GetResponseStream                           source   reader ReadToEnd                      HtmlDocument doc   new HtmlDocument            doc LoadHtml source                   XDocument xdoc   XDocument Parse doc DocumentNode InnerHtml  LoadOptions None           imdbitem i   new imdbitem            i rating   xdoc Descendants  rating   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i rating count   xdoc Descendants  rating count   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i year   xdoc Descendants  year   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i rated   xdoc Descendants  rated   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i title   xdoc Descendants  title   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i imdb url   xdoc Descendants  imdb url   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i plot simple   xdoc Descendants  plot simple   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i type   xdoc Descendants  type   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i poster   xdoc Descendants  poster   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i imdb id   xdoc Descendants  imdb id   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i also known as   xdoc Descendants  also known as   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i language   xdoc Descendants  language   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i country   xdoc Descendants  country   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i release date   xdoc Descendants  release date   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i filming locations   xdoc Descendants  filming locations   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i runtime   xdoc Descendants  runtime   Select x   gt  x Value  FirstOrDefault            i directors   xdoc Descendants  directors   Descendants  item   Select x   gt  x Value  ToList            i writers   xdoc Descendants  writers   Descendants  item   Select x   gt  x Value  ToList            i actors   xdoc Descendants  actors   Descendants  item   Select x   gt  x Value  ToList            i genres   xdoc Descendants  genres   Descendants  item   Select x   gt  x Value  ToList            return i             public class imdbitem               public string rating   get  set            public string rating count   get  set            public string year   get  set            public string rated   get  set            public string title   get  set            public string imdb url   get  set            public string plot simple   get  set            public string type   get  set            public string poster   get  set            public string imdb id   get  set            public string also known as   get  set            public string language   get  set            public string country   get  set            public string release date   get  set            public string filming locations   get  set            public string runtime   get  set            public List lt string gt  directors   get  set            public List lt string gt  writers   get  set            public List lt string gt  actors   get  set            public List lt string gt  genres   get  set

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new api   http   www omdbapi com  edit  due to legal issues had to move the service to a new domain

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that deanclatworthy still seems to work and there s another one  http   imdbapi poromenos org

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Found this one     IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of   the IMDb movie      database about movies  people  characters and   companies    http   imdbpy sourceforge net

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The IMDb has a public API that  although undocumented  is fast and reliable  used on the official website through AJAX    Search Suggestions API   https   sg media-imdb com suggests a aa json https   v2 sg media-imdb com suggests h hello json  alternate  Format  JSON-P Caveat  It s in JSON-P format  and the callback parameter can not customised  To use it cross-domain you ll have to use the function name they choose  which is in the imdb  searchphrase  format   Alternatively  one could strip or replace the padding via a local proxy       1  Vanilla JavaScript  JSON-P  function addScript src    var s   document createElement  script    s src   src  document head appendChild s     window imdb foo   function  results                   addScript  https   sg media-imdb com suggests f foo json        2  Using jQuery  JSON-P  jQuery ajax       url   https   sg media-imdb com suggests f foo json       dataType   jsonp       cache  true      jsonp  false      jsonpCallback   imdb foo     then function  results                          3  Pure JSON  with jQuery     Use a local proxy that strips the  padding  of JSON-P     e g   imdb foo   and      leaving pure JSON only  jQuery getJSON   api imdb  q foo   function  results                          4  Pure JSON  ES2017 and Fetch API     Using a custom proxy at   api  that strips the JSON-P padding  const resp   await fetch   api imdb  q foo    const results   await resp json      Advanced Search   Name search  json   http   www imdb com xml find json 1 amp nr 1 amp nm on amp q jeniffer garner Title search  xml   http   www imdb com xml find xml 1 amp nr 1 amp tt on amp q lost Format  XML Upside  Supports both film titles and actor names  unlike Suggestions API       Beware that these APIs are unofficial and could change at any time     Update  January 2019   The Advanced API no longer exists  The good news is  that the Suggestions API now supports the  advanced  features of searching by film titles and actor names as well

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IMDB doesn t seem to have a direct API as of August 2016 yet but I saw many people writing scrapers and stuff above  Here is a more standard way to access movie data using box office buzz API  All responses in JSON format and 5000 queries per day on a free plan  List of things provided by the API   Movie Credits Movie ID Movie Images Get movie by IMDB id Get latest movies list Get new releases  Get movie release dates Get the list of translations available for a specific movie Get videos  trailers  and teasers for a movie Search for a movie by title Also supports TV shows  games and videos

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IMDB themselves seem to distribute data  but only in text files   http   www imdb com interfaces  there are several APIs around this that you can Google  Screen scraping is explicitly forbidden   A official API seems to be in the works  but has been that for years already

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https   deanclatworthy com tools html is an IMDB API but has been down due to abuse

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What about TMDb API    You can search by imdb id with GET  find  external id   https   developers themoviedb org 3 find find-by-id

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If you want movie details api you can consider  OMDB API which is Open movies Database Returns IBDB Rating  IMDB Votes and you can include Rotten Tomato rating too   Or else You can use   My Api Films which allows you to search with IMDB ID and returns detailed information but it has request limits

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Im pretty confident that the application you found actually gets their information form Themoviedb org s API they get most of there stuff from IMDB   They have a free open API that is used alot of the movie organizer XMBC applications

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Recently at SXSWi 2012  in their  Mashery Lounge   there was a booth for an IMDB-like API called from rovi  It s not a free API  but according to the sales guy I talked to they offer either a rev share or a flat fee for usage  depending on your budget  I haven t used it yet but it seems pretty cool

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There is a JSON API for use by mobile applications at http   app imdb com  However  the warning is fairly severe      For use only by clients authorized in writing by IMDb    Authors and users of unauthorized clients accept full legal exposure liability for their actions    I presume this is for those developers that pay for the licence to access the data via their API   EDIT  Just for kicks  I wrote a client library to attempt to read the data from the API  you can find it here  api-imdb  Obviously  you should pay attention to the warning  and really  use something like TheMovieDB as a better and more open database   Then you can use this Java API wrapper  that I wrote   api-themoviedb

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NetFilx is more of personalized media service but you can use it for public information regarding movies  It supports Javascript and OData  Also look JMDb  The information is basically the same as you can get when using the IMDb website

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