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