Connecting to IMDB

Matthew M. Osborn picture Matthew M. Osborn · Sep 19, 2008 · Viewed 40.3k times · Source

Has any one done this before? It would seem to me that there should be a webservice but i can't find one. I am writing an application for personal use that would just show basic info from IMDB.

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Arical picture Arical · Nov 16, 2010

The libraries for IMDb seem quite unreliable at present and highly inefficient. I really wish IMDb would just create a webservice.

After a bit of searching I found a reasonable alternative to IMDb. It provides all the basic information such as overview, year, ratings, posters, trailers etc.:

The Movie Database (TMDb).

It provides a webservice with wrappers for several languages and seems reliable so far. The search results have been, for myself, more accurate as well.