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- helwr 16y agoYou may also be interested in IMDB history http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?history http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?history
- thehodge 16y agoJust a quiet reminder for anyone wanting to use this Please refer to the copyright/license information listed in each file for instructions on allowed usage. The data is NOT FREE although it may be used for free in specific circumstances. http://www.imdb.com/help/show_article?conditions http://www.imdb.com/help/show_article?conditions which links to http://www.imdb.com/licensing/ http://www.imdb.com/licensing/ and Minimum Price: We offer data licensing packages that are customized to meet your needs with annual fees ranging from $15,000 to higher depending on the audience for the data and which data are being licensed. We are not able to offer any sort of data license for less than $15,000.
- nikcub 16y agothat really sucks considering that contributors on the net built most of imdb. they didn't have anything like a cc license for user contributions back then
- delinka 16y agoIt's this kind of crowdsourcing that I dislike. Mine the efforts of the people and keep the information to yourself. I'm mainly disappointed that because of this limited access, I can't have a better experience browsing the data on the web or in a mobile app. As it stands, both their site and the iOS app are slow, and the iOS app navigation just stinks.
- michaelcampbell 16y agoI believe the CDDB/Gracenote issue was exactly this; cddb built a massive database of cd's from user input, sold out to another company, which promptly closed it up and made it commercial. My memory may be wrong here, however.
- ra 16y agoYep, that's pretty much what happened. Only IMDB is now owned by Amazon. You would have hoped that they would be a little more community spirited with the data given it's origins.
- notyourwork 16y agohttp://www.themoviedb.org/ http://www.themoviedb.org/ is a imdb clone but free and open/run by the community. xbmc uses it for movie lookups if you wish.
- hitechsites 16y agoJust checked themoviedb.org - but it does not seem like it has a lot of data. How many movies does it have and is it comparable to imdb in size?
- pyre 16y agoNo. I always point XBMC at IMDB. tmdb doesn't have nearly the breadth or depth of IMDB.
- yousuffauzan 16y agoAround 30k titles compared to IMDB 1.5+ mil.
- notyourwork 16y agoAlthough someone already commented and I am late to the party on this one I have yet to see xbmc using tmdb not find a movie I was watching. Sure IMDB can be considered more "complete" but tmdb certainly has popular mainstream titles.
- zalew 16y agoI've recently started developing a django app for syncing with tmdb's data https://bitbucket.org/zalew/django-tmdb/wiki/Home https://bitbucket.org/zalew/django-tmdb/wiki/Home just released the first commands and everything is in early dev, but it works.
- baddox 16y agoI actually built a movie watchlist and todo list for myself using Django and tmdb. It's live, and the code's on github. http://movies.tshaddox.com/ http://movies.tshaddox.com/ https://github.com/baddox/watchlist2 https://github.com/baddox/watchlist2 edit: The code's probably not very "pluggable" or "reusable," since that wasn't a design goal :). It's hopefully readable. Feel free to recommend a film (just search for it on the right sidebar).
- antimatter15 16y agoI'm assuming most of the non-review/summary data is just fact. Presentation is copyrightable, but I don't think simple facts can be copyrighted that way.
- jeza 16y agoIn Australia at least, compilation of data is copyrightable, even where the individual sources may not be. Databases which you could argue are just fact but still restricted by copyright include telephone directories (Whitepages) and public transport timetabling information (which our state government controls rather tightly and won't even release to Google Transit).
- pyre 16y agoDon't worry. Google will cave eventually, then everyone will be praising the bureaucrats that stuck to their guns to get a windfall licensing deal out of Google!
- jeza 16y agoThe point is that the data should be available to the public under a license such as Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 (used for other government data). Governments aren't about making a profit and I doubt Google will pay a cent for this data anyway when other governments are giving it to them for free.
- pyre 16y agoRead my post as high sarcasm...
- andrewf 16y agoJust an extra data point: public transit timetables for Western Australia's capital, Perth, are provided to Google, and any member of the public can download the same data from a website. Conditions attached but no questions asked. http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/TimetablesMaps/SpatialDataAccess.aspx http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/TimetablesMaps/SpatialDataAc...
- jschuur 16y agoWhen was that page last updated? Look at the machines/OSs referenced on it: OS/2, Acorn, Amiga, Win 95/98/NT! I haven't seen the string 'ftp' mentioned on the same page so many times in years.
- sesqu 16y agoHard to say. The page and the files both report recent timestamps. The wayback machine saw the page in '96, has the windows version appearing between '97 and '00, and after that pretty much the only changes have been to the list of ftp servers.
- pyre 16y agoMost of the tools probably aren't updated much (or at all) and the system is only maintained for the distribution of the data files.
- joelverhagen 16y agoDon't parse it all yourself. http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/ http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/
- res0nat0r 16y agoOh nice. Thanks for this. I downloaded the database for my own interest the other month, and after viewing the horrible format I gave up. I am going to check this out!
- hmottestad 16y agoWe use it at the University in Oslo as a realistic database for practicing sql. It's great fun. I remember one question. List the directors that have directed at least 20 movies and acted in all of them. This is fairly tricky, and returns a list of mostly explicit movie directors. What's more fun though is a sparql endpoint. So you can query it and link to it on your own sites. I found this one on a quick google search (couldn't find the one I looked at before). http://www.linkedmdb.org/ http://www.linkedmdb.org/
- notyourwork 16y agoThat sounds like a great example database for database classes! Something a student could wrap their head around to understand the dataset. I found a lot of times students new to database concepts had trouble unless examples were given in terms of a dataset they could relate to or at least understand the relationships without the DB language.
- maneesh 16y agoAt Stanford in CS107 we had to write an IMDB six degrees of separation, using this same database. Insert the names of 2 actors, and our app will calculate the degrees of separation between them. Kevin Bacon was highly connected :)
- notyourwork 16y agoWho doesn't love Kevin Bacon! What a great project, this would applicable as an enhancement to projects like xbmc.
- bajsejohannes 16y agoThis is exactly how I learned SQL, too. Through http://sqlzoo.net/ http://sqlzoo.net/ . I agree it's a fun way to learn it.
- clemesha 16y agoIt would be so cool to make http://TheWikiGame.com http://TheWikiGame.com for IMDB data, but I guess the license dis-allows it?
- zandorg 16y agoThey recently did a re-design and screwed up the photo links on the pages of the people in the database (like Steven Spielberg). Kind of annoying.