It's so nice that they make this data available in such a fashion.

That said, it would be amazing to have (anonymized) data about raw ratings per person, and be able to build your own personal recommenders based on that... One can dream!

> It's so nice that they make this data available in such a fashion.

Is it or are they just trying to preempt a more open alternative.

It always seems more like an forgotten artifact on their end that is used for universities and research. They are not really a competitor to the open platforms as contributing on IMDb is very limited.

what are open competitors to IMDb?

TMDB and many others, some specific to Anime or other types of content.

I really like imcdb, or The Internet Movie Car Database. Want to know what cars were in a movie? Check imcdb!

https://www.imcdb.org/

haha, thanks, we need a movie database database!

Wikidata.org the database behind Wikipedia is a good alternative as a general database including films and related crew for instance with Avatar (2009) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24871

Although is cannot be queried in SQL, but SPARQL instead https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service

TMDB, TVDB, AniDB & Anilist (anime)

You should check out movielens, they have a couple recommenders as well as some data sets you can download.

Interesting! But it seems these datasets don't contain the description of each movie? Do you know where tools such as Jellyfin or Plex get them? Do they simply scrape the website?

The Movie Database (TMDB) is a good resource for this. Likewise, TVMaze offers some details / media missing from TMDB for TV shows.

https://www.themoviedb.org/ https://www.tvmaze.com/

I found OMDB to be the best for my spaghetti of code

https://www.omdbapi.com/ https://github.com/jgbrwn/my-upc/blob/main/app.py https://my-upc.com

Not heard of OMDB before, thanks, will give it a go

By default, Jellyfin uses TMDB (TheMovieDb) and OMDB (The Open Movie Database) as its metadata providers