I feel like I must mention the IMDBpy[1] project, its a mature framework/api to access IMDB via the web or to build a local database based on the flatfiles[2] i

I feel like I must mention the IMDBpy[1] project, its a mature framework/api to access IMDB via the web or to build a local database based on the flatfiles[2] imdb make available ;) IMDB itself don't provide a (free) API and webscraping is explicitly forbidden in their TOS[3], so don't start building a service around that;) [1] http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/ http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.imdb.com/interfaces http://www.imdb.com/interfaces [3] http://www.imdb.com/help/show_article?conditions http://www.imdb.com/help/show_article?conditions (edit: forgot a link)