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IMDbPY related projects
imdbpykit
Davide Alberani
IMDbPYkit is the new web interface of choice to every information accessible through IMDbPY; it's able to serve data in both XML and HTML format. IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies.
vdbpy
Davide Alberani
A set of scripts to manage the VideoDB database from the command line. IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies.
imdbpygw
Davide Alberani
This is a simple gateway to the IMDb site, based on the IMDbPY package; it can be used to access IMDb's data from a simple low-band terminal, as a mobile phone with WAP support.
imdbpyweb
Davide Alberani
A web interface to the IMDb data. You should probably try imdbpykit first, since this code is a little old. Main authors: Martin Kirst and Davide Alberani. IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies.
imdbpyople
Davide Alberani
Randomly jumps from an actor/actress/director to other people using the information from IMDb, for the fun of it.
imdbpy-testsuite
Davide Alberani
A test suite for IMDbPY.
Programs
A list of programs using IMDbPY.
Series 60 GUI for IMDbPY
Davide Alberani
A GUI for Series 60 mobile phones. It's released under the GPL license. Unfortunately it's mostly out-of-date, so if someone wants to revive its development, drop us a note.
imdbpykit
H. Turgut Uyar, Davide Alberani
A web interface to the IMDb data. This is the new web interface of choice to every information accessible through IMDbPY; it's able to serve data in both XML and HTML format.
For installation and use, read the
README.txt file.
Remember that you MUST respect the IMDb's
conditions of use.
imdbpyweb
Davide Alberani, Martin Kirst
A web interface to the IMDb data. This is a web interface to every information accessible through IMDbPY; the output is not suitable for old browser or mobile phone, so you can also take a look at imdbgw below.
This project is a little outdated, and you probably should use imdbpykit (see above).
Also available in the
Mercurial repository.
Remember that you MUST respect the IMDb's
conditions of use.
Videotheque
H. Turgut Uyar
A video collection manager for Plone: Videotheque provides the necessary content types and related tools to help you manage a video collection; it's released under the GPL 3 license.
Humphrey
H. Turgut Uyar
Humphrey is a project for developing applications and tools for managing a video collection. It uses SQLAlchemy for storing the data and IMDbPY for getting information from the IMDb. The first frontend is being implemented in wxPython. Released under the term of the GNU GPL license.
AlMoviesRenamer
Alberto Malagoli
AlMoviesRenamer cares about automatically rename your movie files, searching for information on the web. It's released under the GPL v3 license.
MovieDB
Julian Mayer
MovieDB is an application that lets you easily manage your digital movie collection for Mac OS X. It's released under the MIT license.
CouchPotato
Ruud Burger
CouchPotato (CP) is an automatic NZB and torrent downloader. You can keep a "movies I want"-list and it will search for NZBs/torrents of these movies every X hours. Once a movie is found, it will send it to SABnzbd or download the torrent to a specified directory.
Diribeo
David Kaufman
Diribeo is an open source application which allows you to organize your series collection. It's released under the MIT license.
MythBox
analogue
See also this script from count_zero
MythBox is a MythTV frontend for the XBMC media player and entertainment hub. It's released under the GPL license.
Smewt
Nicolas Wack
Smewt is a smart media manager. It goes looking for your media files (movies, series, ...) and automatically recognizes them and gets more information on them from the web. It presents your collection not as a list of files, but as semantically related information, all of this in a slick interface. It's released under the GPL 3 license.
metals
dblips
Metals is a command-line script which retrieves and stores movie metadata from IMDb to local sqlite database. It's released under the MIT license.
SubDownloader
Ivan Garcia
An automatic tool to find the subtitles of any video file; it's released under the GPL license.
Nautilus IMDb Property Page
Saravanan Thirumuruganathan
A Python extension to the Nautilus file manager, to retrieve information about video files. See a detailed explanation about how to build Nautilus extensions here.
Enterteiner
Lauri Taimila
Entertainer aims to be a simple and easy-to-use media center solution for Gnome and XFce desktop environments. Entertainer is written completely in Python using object-oriented programming paradigm; it's released under the GPL license.
Cinemania
Basil Shubin
A personal movie library for the Web. It supports user logins with different permissions, CSS themes, and translations. Cinemania allows you to store information on your movies and track who has borrowed them; it's released under the GPL 3 license.
quickmovie
Yann Ramin
A movie browser designed around an input list consisting of filesnames which match the approximate name of the movie. By using IMDB, quickmovie can grab cover art, titles, summaries, etc for movies. It's released under the GPL 3 license.
lm (list movies)
Guillaume "RedRise" Garchery (based on a work by Goffi)
lm is a command-line tool which lists movies, loosely inspired from ls. Extra features allow you to download subtitles, and interact with the opensubtitles hash database. lm is not english oriented, and is able to provide information for all movie files.
For a more detailed description with examples read
this post.
It's released under the GPL 3 license.
tvrecommend
Emre Sevinc
Recommends movies on TV, based on previous preferences of the user; it's released under the GPL license.
mediacat
Jörg Zinke
A free, easy to use, frontend for multimedia files; mediacat (former mediabox) is a so called home theatre pc platform (HTPC).
It uses IMDbPY as an optional dependency; it's released under the BSD license.
imdbgw
Davide Alberani
A simple CGI gateway to the IMDb database, based on the IMDbPY package; it can be used to access IMDb's data from a simple low-band terminal, as a mobile phone with WAP support.
Also available in the
Mercurial repository.
Remember that you MUST respect the IMDb's
conditions of use.
vdbpy
Davide Alberani
A set of scripts to manage the
VideoDB database from the command line. With vdbpy you can add a single new movie or modify an existing database fetching data from IMDb; it's also possible to add a batch of movies with a single run.
Also available in the
Mercurial repository.
MythTV
The MythTV's staff (Hadley Rich?)
MythTV is a homebrew PVR project with a lot of features, released under the GPL license.
IMDbPY is only used (by the svn version) as an external script, to perform movie data lookups.
Jamu (for MythTV)
R.D. Vaughan
Jamu performs a variety of utility functions on mythvideo metadata and its associated video files and directories; released under the term of the GNU GPL 2 license.
pyTivoMetaThis for pyTivo
Graham Dunn, maintained by Josh Harding
A program to stream your movie files to an unhacked
TiVo, released under the GPL license.
IMDbPY is used by external script, to perform movie data lookups.
epgsnoop
Hadley Rich
A python package which wraps the dvbsnoop program and generates XMLTV data. The data is usable for MythTV and possibly other PVR systems. Released under the MIT license.
meliman
Matthew Trumbell
A tool for organizing and tagging your media library, released under a BSD license.
sandoval
Markus Zapke-Gründemann, Stephan Hoyer
Sandoval is a movie application build with the Django Framework. Its main purpose is to show the capabilities of Django. Sandoval is released under a BSD license.
towatch
Deepak Sarda
A Python script which first fetches the list of bookmarked movies from del.icio.us using feedparser; the retrieved data is then written in a XML file.
Bottiger
verily (Antibogon - A B, for the IMDbPY-based portion)
A Python script which returns a text string containing the original air date for the last aired and next upcoming episodes of a TV series title. It also provides the plot for the next upcoming episode, if available. It's used as part of a DC bot.
EyeRCbot
EyeRCbot staff
A modular IRC bot written in Python using the irclib module, released under the MIT License.
imdbpyople
Davide Alberani
A CGI that makes you randomly jump from an actor/actress/director to another one who have worked with the given person, for the fun of it.
Also available in the
Mercurial repository.
imdbpy-testsuite
Davide Alberani
A test suite for the latest IMDbPY (only for developers).
Also available in the
Mercurial repository.
folder-theater
Mathieu Leplatre
Generates a fancy Web page from a folder with movies files.
Written in Python, released under the Beer-ware License.
Services and papers
Services based on IMDbPY, and papers/researches which used IMDbPY to retrieve and manage the needed data.
Film Cloud - The movies the internet is watching
Sam Cavenagh
Film Cloud is a movie recommendation engine which monitors internet activity to collate a comprehensive list of movies that are currently in vogue. These movies are then displayed in a simple but descriptive manner with links to IMDB and YouTube trailers, allowing you to easily find the next movie you'll be watching.
Automatic Generation of Movie Trailers using Ontologies
Svp Group
A paper about automatic generation of teasers using ontologies. It's so cool it hurts!
Likability-Based Genres: Analysis and Evaluation of the Netflix Dataset
Andrew M. Olney
The paper describes a new approach to defining genre. Very very cool!
MySQL: Optimizing Queries with Explain
Morgan Tocker(percona)
In-deep course about optimization of a MySQL database; it extensively uses the database created by IMDbPY.
LaserLion
Gustaf Nilsson
Calculate the average votes of movies for a given person.
A Framework for Evaluating Database Keyword Search Strategies
Joel Coffman and Alfred C. Weaver
An analysis of keyword search strategies for structured data. Schema and data can be downloaded from this page.
Solving Games Magazine's "Role Playing 4"
Kyle Anderson
Searching for a solution of a Games Magazine contest, using IMDbPY (code included).
Fobox
Flankk
A Wikipedia assisted bot designed to create infoboxes for film-related pages or stubs that don't include them.
iphone.savvy.nl/tvgids
Yun Zheng Hu
Dutch tvguide web application for the iphone/ipod touch, contains detailed information about programs and has IMDb ratings for movies.
Film/Movie Production Over Time
Rufus Pollock
An analysis of film/movie production over time.
Correlating Netflix and IMDb datasets
Ilya Grigorik
Blog post with an analysis of the netflix data, integrating them with information from IMDb (can be a starting point for working on the netflix prize (ehi! If someone wins it using IMDbPY, I want my fair share!) Code and processed data are available.
See also the related netflixprize.com forum thread.
websites and papers
A list of links to useful or curious sites.
Cinemelma
Davide Alberani
My Italian cine-blog.
Mining gold from the Internet Movie Database
Tom Moertel
Interesting and useful analysis of the IMDb's data.
IMDB Movie-Rating Decoder Ring
Tom Moertel
Interesting and useful analysis of the IMDb's data.
Feature Films
The Internet Archive
Freely downloadable (mostly old) movies in the Public Domain.
The Oracle of Bacon
Brett pjaden and Glenn Wasson
'cause everyone knows that Kevin Bacon is the center of the universe!
IMDb-light
arune.se
A search form tailored for mobile phones.
Other projects
This is a list of projects related to IMDb or movies in general.
The IMDb API v2.0
Brian Fritz
The IMDb API is a web service that provides a JSON/XML API to the IMDb data.
VideoDB
pndreas Gohr and others
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It requires the MySQL database and a web server with PHP support; it's released under the GPL license.
Read more about VideoDB on its
Freecode page.
IMDB::Film
Michael Stepanov
IMDB::Film is OO Perl interface that allows to retrieve information about movies by its IMDB code or title; there is also a possibility to get information about IMDB persons by their name of code.
It's released under the GPL license.
libimdb-ruby
Peter Schrammel
a Ruby library that provides some classes to search and retrieve informations about movies from IMDb.
It's released under the LGPL license.
IMDb for Ruby
ariejanand Saandeep Kumar
Ruby gem to access the IMDb database; released under the MIT license.
JMDB
Uwe Fpeese and Juergen Ulbts
JMDB is a Java based application which uses the IMDb's plain text data files and put these data in a local database; released under a free software license.
IMDB "Where Have I Seen" tool
Shreevatsa R
A Greasemonkey script which shows you what roles actors have had in movies you've seen. Released under the GNU GPL license.
IMDb Preview
Geva Zeichner
A Firefox extension that allows you to preview movie and actor posters when hovering over their IMDb links; it's released under the Mozilla Public License 1.1.
Imdb Services
logiCode
ImdbServices provides you with .NET 3.5 Classes to search movies by code, title, actors, directors, etc on IMDb
Released under the (open source) Microsoft Reciprocal License license.
Insert IMDb Info
logiCode
Insert IMDb Info Allows you to search IMDb and then insert film details into your blog entry within Windows Live Writer.
Released under the (open source) Microsoft Reciprocal License license.
filmuplib
Michele Ferretti
A pure Python script useful to collect movie info from the Italian site
filmup.com.
Released under the LGPL license.
PHP imdb Classes
Giorgos Giagas, Itzphak Rehberg and others
Classes to access the information on imdb from PHP.
Released under the GPL license.
PHP IMDb Scraper/API
Abhinay Rathore
PHP IMDb Scraper/API
Released under a use-for-free license.
ASP.net/C# IMDb Scraper/API
Abhinay Rathore
ASP.net/C# IMDb Scraper/API
Released under a use-for-free license.