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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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nodejs trying to read stream of jpg data from return function

Im trying to get poster data back from omdb API, found at github. I am getting all other movie information, but I am struggling with streams, the way I think you should get the poster from this function. The code in the omdb API looks like this: //…
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is there any web service to give me list of movies from IMDb?

I need a web service to get all the movies of a particular year which will be passed as parameter to service. I need it for practice and populate list of movies in android listview. Please can anyone suggest to me which web service i need to work…
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Python login into IMDB pro

I would like to download the top 5000 celebs in imdb's starmeter ratings, however to do this I need to be logged into the webserver (for imdb pro) I have no idea how to do this programatically. Is there an imdb api which manages a login to imdb pro…
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Which site supply movie information with API for free?

I need: movie title director cast story I cannot use IMDB.
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Where to start for my java program (Using the folder names to get info from IMDB)

I finished first year comp sci. And i want to spend some time working on the things they have taught us in the first year (lot of java and a bit of C)... Anyways as a project, i wanted to do something i need, and what i need is a program to run…
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Where to download the movie dataset?

I want to download a movie dump containing the basic information like movie name and list of actors in a single file. I looked for a couple of options like http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/ and http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/ . TheMovieDB does not give…
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Program freezes - no errors, no exceptions

I'm writing a program to scrape data from IMDB, using an IMDB scraping API. It works wonderfully, yet sometimes.. it just stops. No exception thrown, no error, nothing shown on intellitrace, can't find a reason why it stops. And it's intresting,…
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Fast and dynamic autosuggest using JQuery and flat files in JSON format

I've been busting my head on this one so i finally decided to put it on Stackoverflow hoping someone could help me with this. Let me sketch the problem: The most basic usage of an autosuggest feature would be to query the database on each…
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imdbpy2sql.py getting stuck on FLUSHING MoviesCache

I finally got imbdpy2sql running on Windows 7 with Python 2.7 minGW and pymsql, and it connects to the database fine and creates all the tables but it keeps getting stuck on Flushind MoviesCache and never moves past it. This is its output: SAVING…
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How to get more than 10 search results from the IMDB API?

I am trying to suggest movies to an user who has entered a movie genre, e.g. "horror", "sci-fi", etc. For this, I have written a function that makes an API call towards the IMDB API: import requests def search_movies(search, api_key): movies =…
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Given a string, how to determine if it's an IMDB id?

For the regex experts out there, I need to determine whether a given string is a properly formatted IMDB Id. Need to do this in either ColdFusion or JavaScript. ColdFusion would look like: REFind(regex, "tt32423"), and JavaScript would look like…
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How to query OMDb with genre and year?

I am using the OMDb api, I am able to search only with respect to IMDb ID or Title like Search for title with Game and released in the year 2014. But I want to search with out the title for example the action movies released in 2014, it will be…
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How to Find list of movies acted by an actor?

I use the below code to get the cast of a particular movie (Top 2 for instance). How can I get a list of all movies acted by the actor/actress? For instance, I choose the movie Inception (1375666), and the cast is Leonardo DiCaprio. So how can I get…
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Description of the SQL movie databse made by IMDBpy

Recently, I am using IMDBpy API to scrape the IMDB dataset. In this API, there is a imdbpy2sql.py which could convert IMDB movie dataset to a SQL database. But I can not find any description of this dataset. So I can not understand the schema of…
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Extract reviews and ratings from IMDB

The Internet Movie Database does not allow scraping from their website, but does provide an FTP site with text files that can be downloaded and used for research: http://www.imdb.com/interfaces How can I extract reviews and the corresponding ratings…
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