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Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by WarOnPrivacy on Monday August 18, 2025 @12:18AM (#44937363)
This could be cool. I'm recently scouring lists looking for sleepers made 1930s-1980s.
Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by ahartmetz on Monday August 18, 2025 @02:26AM (#44937937)
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, if you haven't seen it yet.
Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by WarOnPrivacy on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:43PM (#44945658)
I'll watch it this week. Thanks!
Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by oguz-ismail on Monday August 18, 2025 @12:25AM (#44937407)
off-topic but why is there a vim swap file in the repo? https://github.com/isene/IMDB/blob/main/.imdb.swp
Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by ekusiadadus on Monday August 18, 2025 @12:49AM (#44937510)
It's cool.
Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by squishington on Monday August 18, 2025 @01:07AM (#44937593)
Cool project. I've been using this IMDB interface and really like its simplicity: https://github.com/zyachel/libremdb
Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by thrown-0825 on Monday August 18, 2025 @01:19AM (#44937648)
How does this access the IMDB api? I thought amazon had some pretty extreme pricing tiers for that.
Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by 1f97 on Monday August 18, 2025 @03:17AM (#44938190)
it doesn't. it uses https://www.themoviedb.org/ and not imdb
Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by vidyesh on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:46AM (#44938877)
It uses both.
Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by vidyesh on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:43AM (#44938861)
It scrapes.
Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by countmora on Monday August 18, 2025 @08:34AM (#44939871)
Don't want to be that guy, but [1] says

>Robots and Screen Scraping: You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on this site, except with our express written consent as noted below.

[1] www.imdb.com/conditions/

Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by vidyesh on Monday August 18, 2025 @09:06AM (#44940178)
I am not disagreeing with you, I was just pointing out that the cli tool does not use the API but scrapes.
Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by AdieuToLogic on Monday August 18, 2025 @01:19AM (#44937649)
A couple notes regarding the GitHub repo.

First, adding a `.gitignore` with at least the following:

  .*.swp
  *.swp
Would help.

Second, committing the generated `gem` artifacts is not a good practice. Either publish[0] it or let those who use it build and distribute it themselves.

0 - https://guides.rubygems.org/publishing/

Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by M95D on Monday August 18, 2025 @04:00AM (#44938369)
IMDB Virtual Terminal Browser. I was hoping for a console browser.
Re:IMDB Terminal Browser by rudolftheone on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:49AM (#44938892)
It would be great to have an ability to browse all the imdb movies/tv series, not just top 250 - but I like the direction :)