Re:Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder
by account42 on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @06:15AM
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> 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.
Re:Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder
by croisillon on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @07:46AM
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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!
Re:Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder
by croisillon on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @01:21PM
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haha, thanks, we need a movie database database!
Re:Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder
by adren123 on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @10:54AM
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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)
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!