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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to films, television programs, and video games. This includes actors, production crew personnel, and fictional characters featured in these three visual entertainment media.

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to films, television programs, and video games. This includes actors, production crew personnel, and fictional characters featured in these three visual entertainment media.

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Does IMDB provide an API?

I recently found a movie organizer application which fetches its data from the IMDB database. Does IMDB provide an API for this, or any third party APIs available?
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Does IMDb provide an api or a data dump to get all title IDs?

IMDB provides plain text files user's can download and use which can be found here: IMDB Plain Text Files which is great but I don't see the ID used for each movie in any of the files. Given IMDB specifically says not to use scrapers, data gatherers…
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Connecting to IMDB

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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Given an IMDB movie id, how do I programmatically get its poster image?

movie id tt0438097 can be found at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438097/ What's the url for its poster image?
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Any IMDB API to get user's ratings history?

I need to be able to import IMDB user's movie ratings into my website. Is there any API for this purpose?
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Start and setup in-memory DB using Spring

I'm writing a small demo application in Java using Spring, that needs to have access to a database. It should run on different machines and it would be far too much effort to setup a real database. Therefore I want to use an embedded one. The DB has…
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Check if intent uri is available

I have an app that sometimes links to imdb. I can do this with http://m.imdb.com/find or if it is available imdb:///find. My trouble is I can't find a way to check whether the imdb:// is available before it is too late. Because the link is clicked…
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Can I retrieve IMDb's movie recommendations for a given movie using IMDbPY?

I'm using IMDbPY to retrieve all kinds of data about movies. For example, if I have a movie object of "Pulp Fiction (1994)" then I can get the name of its (first) director like this: >>> pulp_fiction['director'][0]['name'] u'Quentin…
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Freebase: What data dump file contains the "imdb_id"?

I run IMDbAPI.com and have been using Bing's Search API for finding IMDb ID's from title searches. Bing is currently changing their API over to the Azure Marketplace (August 1st) and is no longer available for free. I started testing my API using…
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Why do I get a 403 error when I try open a URL

I am currently using the imdb api from http://imdbapi.org to get some information about a movie. When I use the API and try to open this url in java it gives me a 403 error. The url is supposed to return the data in JSON. Here is my code so far(Java…
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List of all movie title, actors, directors, writers on Imdb

I am working on a web app which lets users tell their favourite movies, directors, movie- writers, and actors. For this I want to provide them a dropdown list or auto complete for each of them so that they can just pick their choices. For this: I…
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IMDB to MySQL: Insert IMDB data into MySQL database

I’m looking for a solution to import all the IMDB data into my own MySQL database. I’ve downloaded all the IMDB data files from their homepage which are all in the file format *.list (in Windows). I want to retrieve and that information and insert…
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How do you get a thumbnail of a movie using IMDbPy?

Using IMDbPy it is painfully easy to access movies from the IMDB site: import imdb access = imdb.IMDb() movie = access.get_movie(3242) # random ID print "title: %s year: %s" % (movie['title'], movie['year']) However I see no way to get the…
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Getting the creation date of a page on Wikidata Query Service

I'm looking for a way to get all the movies on English Wikipedia, with their creation date. A movie for me is a page with IMDB ID attached to it. So, this is my query so far: SELECT DISTINCT ?item_label ?imdb_id (year(?dateCreation) as…
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TorchText Vocab TypeError: Vocab.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'min_freq'

I am working on a CNN Sentiment analysis machine learning model which uses the IMDb dataset provided by the Torchtext library. On one of my lines of code vocab = Vocab(counter, min_freq = 1, specials=('\', '\', '\', '\')) I…
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