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[C#] Best method of getting DVD details?


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Hey guys, can anyone recommend the best way to get details about a DVD movie from the internet? I'm after,

- Title

- Year

- Description (not major I spose)

- Actors

- Genre or anything else that might be useful

- DVD Cover Art

+ I need to search for the movie by the title, not disc size or IMDB no or whatever. :)

I don't particularly want to code this myself since my Regular expression skills are pretty **** poor. Is there a webservice or C# code that can do this? Or can you guys recommend a decent site that get this info off other than IMDB? IMDB don't exactly make it easy, and with the code breaking every time their layout changes. :(

Cheers.

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What web service would you rather use? Amazon Web Services might have what you need, and they provide XML/HTTP/SOAP interfaces for accessing them

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You could try TMBD which is sort of an open version of IMDB. There is an API that is pretty respectable from what I've seen. A few different applications are using it. I've never tried to play with it using C# but it's standard issue web service stuff so it shouldn't be difficult to get your head around.

Disclosure: a good friend of mine runs the site. While I think it's a pretty solid technical solution I'm not completely unbiased.

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Ooooh I think we have a winner evn. :D Tis a nice looking site actually. :) Thanks!

For anyone else thats wondering, I also find a Python Script that uses IMDB, IMDBpy which looks kinda promising. :)

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