Does IMDB provide an API? [closed]

Answer 1

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&nr=1&tt=on&q=$q");