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The raw data is available here in case you are curious: https://datasets.imdbws.com https://datasets.imdbws.com

• cube2222 2y ago
  It's so nice that they make this data available in such a fashion. That said, it would be amazing to have (anonymized) data about raw ratings per person, and be able to build your own personal recommenders based on that... One can dream!
  • account42 2y ago
    > It's so nice that they make this data available in such a fashion. Is it or are they just trying to preempt a more open alternative.
    • dewey 2y ago
      It always seems more like an forgotten artifact on their end that is used for universities and research. They are not really a competitor to the open platforms as contributing on IMDb is very limited.
      • croisillon 2y ago
        what are open competitors to IMDb?
        • dewey 2y ago
          TMDB and many others, some specific to Anime or other types of content.
        • miah_ 2y ago
          I really like imcdb, or The Internet Movie Car Database. Want to know what cars were in a movie? Check imcdb! https://www.imcdb.org/ https://www.imcdb.org/
          • croisillon 2y ago
            haha, thanks, we need a movie database database!
        • adren123 2y ago
          Wikidata.org the database behind Wikipedia is a good alternative as a general database including films and related crew for instance with Avatar (2009) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24871 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24871 Although is cannot be queried in SQL, but SPARQL instead https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service
      • Cyph0n 2y ago
        TMDB, TVDB, AniDB & Anilist (anime)
  • plopz 2y ago
    You should check out movielens, they have a couple recommenders as well as some data sets you can download.
• bambax 2y ago
  Interesting! But it seems these datasets don't contain the description of each movie? Do you know where tools such as Jellyfin or Plex get them? Do they simply scrape the website?
  • jam3sn 2y ago
    The Movie Database (TMDB) is a good resource for this. Likewise, TVMaze offers some details / media missing from TMDB for TV shows. https://www.themoviedb.org/ https://www.themoviedb.org/ https://www.tvmaze.com/ https://www.tvmaze.com/
    • indigodaddy 2y ago
      I found OMDB to be the best for my spaghetti of code https://www.omdbapi.com/ https://www.omdbapi.com/ https://github.com/jgbrwn/my-upc/blob/main/app.py https://github.com/jgbrwn/my-upc/blob/main/app.py https://my-upc.com https://my-upc.com
      • jam3sn 2y ago
        Not heard of OMDB before, thanks, will give it a go
  • JamesSwift 2y ago
    By default, Jellyfin uses TMDB (TheMovieDb) and OMDB (The Open Movie Database) as its metadata providers