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Re:IMDB data by notyourwork on Sunday April 24, 2011 @09:07PM (#2480053)
http://www.themoviedb.org/ is a imdb clone but free and open/run by the community. xbmc uses it for movie lookups if you wish.
Re:IMDB data by zalew on Sunday April 24, 2011 @10:52PM (#2480254)
I've recently started developing a django app for syncing with tmdb's data https://bitbucket.org/zalew/django-tmdb/wiki/Home

just released the first commands and everything is in early dev, but it works.

Re:IMDB data by baddox on Sunday April 24, 2011 @11:04PM (#2480289)
I actually built a movie watchlist and todo list for myself using Django and tmdb. It's live, and the code's on github.

http://movies.tshaddox.com/

https://github.com/baddox/watchlist2

edit:

The code's probably not very "pluggable" or "reusable," since that wasn't a design goal :). It's hopefully readable. Feel free to recommend a film (just search for it on the right sidebar).

Re:IMDB data by zalew on Sunday April 24, 2011 @11:25PM (#2480329)
> The code's probably not very "pluggable" or "reusable," since that wasn't a design goal :)

cool :) I see we took different approaches.

my app's goal is to provide flexible ways of syncing with db and nothing else, at least for now.

Re:IMDB data by baddox on Monday April 25, 2011 @01:09AM (#2480491)
I had forgotten how messy my tmdb API usage is. I'm using some guy's wrapper on pypi[1], as well as a manual fork (read: copy-paste-modify) of what I think is the same guy's github repo.

[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/themoviedb

Re:IMDB data by zalew on Monday April 25, 2011 @11:45AM (#2481604)
Re:IMDB data by mvalle on Monday April 25, 2011 @05:34AM (#2480855)
I'm just building a mango app to sync with IMDb. Oh well...

I'll have a look at yours. I didn't know about tmdb.

Re:IMDB data by hitechsites on Sunday April 24, 2011 @10:09PM (#2480161)
Just checked themoviedb.org - but it does not seem like it has a lot of data. How many movies does it have and is it comparable to imdb in size?
Re:IMDB data by notyourwork on Monday April 25, 2011 @09:50AM (#2481215)
Although someone already commented and I am late to the party on this one I have yet to see xbmc using tmdb not find a movie I was watching. Sure IMDB can be considered more "complete" but tmdb certainly has popular mainstream titles.
Re:IMDB data by pyre on Monday April 25, 2011 @03:05AM (#2480688)
No. I always point XBMC at IMDB. tmdb doesn't have nearly the breadth or depth of IMDB.