API to fetch Celebrity BIO

Question

Is there any free api to fetch celebrity BIO? I can see that info in IMDB but i can't find any API there to fetch it.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216/bio

Answer 1

A simple google search gives:

Does IMDB provide an API?

and

http://mymovieapi.com/

You can always use an http request and parse the webpage yourself.

You didn't really mention what you're trying to get the Bio from, if from a desktop application you can simply use whatever HTTP library.

If you're looking to use a web request you will have to set up CORS to allow the cross domain call and parse through the bio page. I've done the following with jQuery:

var htmlData="";
$.get('http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216/bio', function(data) { htmlData=data; });
var bio = $(htmlData).find('#tn15content')[0].textContent;