Sources of metadata about movies and shows?
August 24, 2024 11:50 AM   Subscribe

I'm thinking of a small personal project that would need a way to look up data about movies and shows. Cover art, episode details, actors, directors, that sort of thing. I'm hoping to find data aggregating site(s) that provided free bulk downloads of their dataset, or APIs that have generous free tiers. Any recommendations?
posted by Number Used Once to Computers & Internet (5 answers total) 4 users marked this as a favorite
 
IMDb allows you to download their dataset for non-commercial purposes. You can also use their API free for one month.

Similarly, the TMDB API is free for non-commercial purposes.
posted by eschatfische at 11:56 AM on August 24


There's also the Open movie database API
posted by Iteki at 11:57 AM on August 24




Letterboxd has an API, and so does JustWatch.

(I don't really know enough about this sort of thing to say more than that these are things that exist.)
posted by box at 1:00 PM on August 24


The TVDB is often used for this purpose

https://thetvdb.com/api-information
posted by bug138 at 2:06 PM on August 24 [1 favorite]


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