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Re:MDB: IMDB data for a folder of movie files. Sort by ratin... by seremoney on Sunday July 08, 2012 @03:36PM (#4215417)
Looks like the app is using http://www.imdbapi.com/. Check out "api_url" in config.py and the get_imdb_data() function in DBbuilder.py.
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Re:MDB: IMDB data for a folder of movie files. Sort by ratin... by nirvana on Sunday July 08, 2012 @04:28PM (#4215598)
This is confusing. On the imdbapi page, it says, at the bottom, its source is "Freebase" http://www.freebase.com/ and Wikipedia.

If I search for a movie on the imdbapi.com page, it has IMDB rating. IF I go to freebase for the same movie and search there is no imdb rating there (for obvious reasons, IMDB doesn't make this data available under any license, you'd have to scrape it[1]) The wikipedia page is very extensive, but doesn't have this rating either.

[1] near as I can find.

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