IMDB API

[+Dick Montage Subscriber²]

Has anyone here worked with the IMDB API?  I want to write (for entirely personal use) a lookup against the API to match movie names against a string (for example).

Thing is, I see they use AWS for access (which is new to me), and moreover, not sure how to interpret the costs.

The code side looks pretty simple.

[WiltshireHam]

you could always use the TMDB (The Movie DataBase) API which is free for personal use...

https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/getting-started

[astropheed Veteran]

On 31/10/2024 at 04:28, Kyle said:

Was just reading the pricing and it looks like they have a $150k USD upfront cost to use it.

Damn son.

Anyways, that's not necessary. If it's for personal use your metering will never kick in from just scrapping the website with Python from each request. BeautifulSoup will do this job. Bonus points for making the API how you want it to be! Without looking I assume the page is statically rendered, if not there are libraries for Python to deal with that too, I believe even "requests" has the capability.

[+Kyle Subscriber¹]

Was just reading the pricing and it looks like they have a $150k USD upfront cost to use it.

[+Kyle Subscriber¹]

On 30/10/2024 at 14:34, WiltshireHam said:

you could always use the TMDB (The Movie DataBase) API which is free for personal use...

https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/getting-started

Learn something new everyday. Didn’t even know that site existed. 👀