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Queries unofficial imdb APIs to get movie and television information from imdb
A non-scraping, functional node.js interface to imdb
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npm install --save imdb-api
Import the library using require
const imdb = require('imdb-api')
or ES6 import
import imdb from 'imdb-api'
Call get
to get a single movie
imdb.get({name: 'The Toxic Avenger'}, {apiKey: 'foo', timeout: 30000}).then(console.log).catch(console.log);
Movie {
title: 'The Toxic Avenger',
...
}
Furthermore if you already know the id you can call get
with different args:
imdb.get({id: 'tt0090190'}, {apiKey: 'foo'}).then(console.log);
Movie {
title: 'The Toxic Avenger',
...
}
You can search for movies, and get multiple results by using the search
function.
imdb.search({
name: 'Toxic Avenger'
}, {
apiKey: 'foo'
}).then(console.log).catch(console.log);
TV shows have an episodes
method that you can use to fetch all of the episodes
from that TV series.
imdb.get({name: 'How I Met Your Mother'}, {apiKey: 'foo'}).then((things) => {
return things.episodes()
}).then((eps) => {
console.log(eps);
});
Episode {
season: 2,
name: 'The Scorpion and the Toad',
released: '2006-10-25T07:00:00.000Z',
episode: 2,
rating: '8.3',
imdbid: 'tt0869673' },
...
Client
objectimdb-api
also exported a Client
object that you can use to store options for subsequent requests.
import imdb = require('imdb');
const cli = new imdb.Client({apiKey: 'xxxxxx'});
cli.get({'name': 'The Toxic Avenger'}).then(console.log);
Client
also has a search
method for searching.
import imdb = require('imdb');
const cli = new imdb.Client({apiKey: 'xxxxxx'});
cli.search({'name': 'The Toxic Avenger'}).then((search) => {
for (const result of search.results) {
console.log(result.title);
}
});
Yes, it is required! omdb made this a requirement as of May 8, 2017. This is unfortunate, but totally understandable. While I plan on working on finding an alternative to provide the movie info you crave, I've enabled you to pass in an apikey.
You can get one by going here.
Most of them scrape imdb. imdb explicitly forbids scraping.
And what happens when the site layout changes? Well then your screen scraping solution fails in interesting ways. Screen scraping is also pretty slow, and we can't have that.
There isn't an official API to imdb. As soon as one is released (and I notice), I'll update the module.
imdb DOES release all of their data in text files nightly, so unofficial sites have popped up providing RESTful APIs against that data.
I have to use a few, since none of them are complete.
File a bug. I'll get creative.
Version 4.3.0
Game
type from omdb (Fixes #81)FAQs
Queries unofficial imdb APIs to get movie and television information from imdb
The npm package imdb-api receives a total of 250 weekly downloads. As such, imdb-api popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that imdb-api demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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