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");

Answer 2

new api @ http://www.omdbapi.com

edit: due to legal issues had to move the service to a new domain :)

Answer 3

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/

Answer 4

What about TMDb API ?

You can search by imdb_id with GET /find/{external_id}

https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/find/find-by-id

Answer 5

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&limit=1&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 => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.rating_count = xdoc.Descendants("rating_count").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.year = xdoc.Descendants("year").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.rated = xdoc.Descendants("rated").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.title = xdoc.Descendants("title").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.imdb_url = xdoc.Descendants("imdb_url").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.plot_simple = xdoc.Descendants("plot_simple").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.type = xdoc.Descendants("type").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.poster = xdoc.Descendants("poster").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.imdb_id = xdoc.Descendants("imdb_id").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.also_known_as = xdoc.Descendants("also_known_as").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.language = xdoc.Descendants("language").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.country = xdoc.Descendants("country").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.release_date = xdoc.Descendants("release_date").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.filming_locations = xdoc.Descendants("filming_locations").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.runtime = xdoc.Descendants("runtime").Select(x => x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
        i.directors = xdoc.Descendants("directors").Descendants("item").Select(x => x.Value).ToList();
        i.writers = xdoc.Descendants("writers").Descendants("item").Select(x => x.Value).ToList();
        i.actors = xdoc.Descendants("actors").Descendants("item").Select(x => x.Value).ToList();
        i.genres = xdoc.Descendants("genres").Descendants("item").Select(x => 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<string> directors { get; set; }
        public List<string> writers { get; set; }
        public List<string> actors { get; set; }
        public List<string> genres { get; set; }
    }

}

Answer 6

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

1. Movie Credits
2. Movie ID
3. Movie Images
4. Get movie by IMDB id
5. Get latest movies list
6. Get new releases
7. Get movie release dates
8. Get the list of translations available for a specific movie
9. Get videos, trailers, and teasers for a movie
10. Search for a movie by title
11. Also supports TV shows, games and videos