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Re:Show HN: Movie ratings over time using the Wayback Machine by r721 on Sunday May 15, 2016 @02:17PM (#11702023)
FYI: IMDb ratings database is public, you just need to download ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.imdb.com/pub/ratings.list.gz file every week.

You can even apply diffs retroactively (I think) to get older ratings:

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.imdb.com/pub/diffs/

(via http://www.imdb.com/interfaces)