Re:IMDB data
by notyourwork on Sunday April 24, 2011 @09:07PM
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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.
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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.
I actually built a movie watchlist and todo list for myself using Django and tmdb. It's live, and the code's on github.
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).
> 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.
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.
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
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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
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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.