Movie Search API !!!

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It would be cool to access all the "Movie Search" info in an AJAX API way,
for example:

* Initializing the object with your Zip code + Country or from an address
(using geolocalization from maps?)
* Being able to query the object for:
  * Cinemas "close to me" within a specified range by the coder.
  * All Movies from a cinema
  * Data on a specific movie
    * Title
    * Original Title (this would be REALLY cool, but might not be possible)
    * Length
    * Showtimes
    * Average rating by critics (if available)
    * ... all sorts of cool information! Everything you have!
* Achieve the degree of easyness of the "Google Maps API" with some sort of
decent documentation :)

I hope you get some time to do this, I'd really like to have this API!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ditman on 11 Dec 2008 at 7:33

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Could someone from google comment on whether we are allowed to screen scrape
google.com/movies? In a similar way to http://hurwi.net/map/. So long as we add
"powered by google"?

Original comment by ethan.va...@gmail.com on 2 Jul 2009 at 6:49

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At least some XML feed instead of simple just HTML presentation?

Original comment by ferm...@gmail.com on 24 Jul 2009 at 11:45

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Hi guys,

check these out: 

http://code.google.com/p/aenext-melon-tickit/
http://code.google.com/p/aenext-tickit-cinema-api/

Original comment by PhTP...@gmail.com on 27 Jul 2009 at 2:36

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itd be awesome to have a google movies api! i really need it!

Original comment by mandrego...@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2009 at 5:26

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I vote for this!

Original comment by goo...@obeyon.nl on 21 Aug 2009 at 12:08

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i vote for this forsure

Original comment by pwd4l...@gmail.com on 28 Aug 2009 at 6:34

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when will this be out? :) 

Original comment by john....@gmail.com on 28 Aug 2009 at 7:07

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I vote for this!

I would also be interested in searching just for the film title, getting the 
list of
all theathers (not just those in your location) where it's shown

Original comment by daniele....@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2009 at 10:24

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1 Vote from São Paulo, Brazil!
=)

Original comment by i.bra...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2009 at 2:17

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Please implement this, Google. It'd be insanely useful!

Original comment by zar...@gmail.com on 13 Sep 2009 at 8:04

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Confirmed. This would be very useful for us at http://filmaster.com - a free 
software
movie recommendation site.

Original comment by borys%mu...@gtempaccount.com on 25 Sep 2009 at 7:58

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Would be also really usefull for us: http://www.dooplan.com , we are trying to 
add by
hand the movies in spain !

Original comment by rober...@gmail.com on 1 Oct 2009 at 1:53

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Yes - I will also chip in! I live i Copenhagen, Denmark. I can see local movie 
info on 
http://google.com/movies and would LOVE to get that info out via an API!

/Anders

Original comment by andersco...@gmail.com on 20 Oct 2009 at 12:57

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I will be also interested  into such API, I've wrote an android application 
based on 
google.com/movies,  it will be very useful for me if there was an api

You could find my application at 
http://code.google.com/p/binomed-android-project/

Original comment by jean.fra...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2009 at 2:31

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We're still feeding our movie program manually every week. Imagine the extra 
time we'd 
get for editorial stuff if we could use this api! http://www.uitinvlaanderen.be

Original comment by luk.verh...@gmail.com on 3 Nov 2009 at 3:53

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After last change of google movies, we can see a change in the code and some
javascript functions like: google.movies.resizeApp(); 
Is there any documentation to use this new Google App?

Original comment by mader.mi...@gmail.com on 12 Nov 2009 at 6:35

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The code is very straight-forward, though, with distinct divs and spans for
everything, with descriptive class names. this should be fairly simple to 
scrape.
Although I'd of course take an API over scraping any day.

Original comment by david.he...@gtempaccount.com on 13 Nov 2009 at 8:58

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Please note that scraping results or content from Google's web interface is 
strictly
prohibited by the TOS.

Original comment by jrgeer...@gmail.com on 13 Nov 2009 at 11:46

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I wasn't aware. That's a very good point.

Original comment by david.he...@gtempaccount.com on 13 Nov 2009 at 3:39

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We want an API which gives the information of movies currently running in local 
city
theatres.  

Original comment by awad.ren...@gmail.com on 26 Nov 2009 at 9:55

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Would be great! Vote YES!!!

Original comment by weishae...@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2009 at 8:34

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Would be awesome!

Original comment by kulturv...@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2009 at 1:35

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An API would be very useful to have!!

Original comment by filocamo...@gmail.com on 27 Dec 2009 at 10:49

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Hi,

I just found this out while playing with the weather xml api :

http://www.google.com/ig/api?movies=paris

But I'm not able to set other parameters, like t= for the theater, or mid= for 
the
movie. Is this still "work in progress" or is there any documentation for it?

Thanks.

Original comment by abarreir on 31 Dec 2009 at 12:55

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@abarreir this is awesome!!

The parameter "mid" (movie_id) appears to work too, but you can't use the 
movie_id
from the first XML response, we need the one that is on the "landingpage_url"
attribute, like this:

http://www.google.com/ig/api?movies=oviedo&mid=132ff148ab4eb847

Great finding! :D

Original comment by ditman on 3 Jan 2010 at 3:43

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Ooops, easy to find out, the &mid param appears to be the hex value of the 
movie_id
data attribute :)

Original comment by ditman on 3 Jan 2010 at 3:51

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@abarreir Nice one!

The only problem is, I'd like to pass in the lat and lon coordinates of a 
location
like you can on the movies page: 
http://www.google.com/movies?near=53.790036%2C+-1.580766

When I try passing this into the url you found, it doesn't work: 
http://www.google.com/ig/api?movies=53.790036%2C+-1.580766

Still, I could probably get some nearest town name and use that to get the 
data, or
make my own unoffical api which I'd rather not do as it probably violates some 
Google
T&Cs.

Thanks anyway.

Original comment by aemble...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2010 at 6:27

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@aembleton Even if you have a city name, we are not able to send advanced 
queries, so
it's impossible so far to build something on top of that.

@ditman You're right. We only need a few parameters to make this API usable. 
Let's
see if someone's working on that ;).

Original comment by abarreir on 4 Jan 2010 at 1:33

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I've added Google Movies API in my search engine for movies, MaFis 
(http://mafis.it)
If you want to see it in action find recent movies, as "Avatar".
You can see it in the top of the results: the duration, the genre and the vote 
(i've 
changed number in a picture with the star).

The API works only with the latest movies, of course. If you want to know how 
I've 
did it, let's ask me!

(I'm italian and the API representation is of course in Italian. Please forgive 
me 
for my English :)

Original comment by m.friger...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2010 at 10:38

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Keen as!!

Original comment by mrvau...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2010 at 6:04

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+1 for this.
I'm looking to rewrite my Flix app for WinMo (it currently scrapes from Yahoo 
which is 
horrible...) and an API would be so much better... 
I tried the link such as http://www.google.com/ig/api?movies=paris but for my 
location, 
and it just returns two movies, and no cinemas?!

Original comment by james.m....@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2010 at 10:35

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Je voute YES pour cette API

Original comment by dayrontb...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2010 at 4:19

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I am also looking for an API for movies from Google, has anyone figured out more
about using the API listed above? Does it handle with POST data or can it all 
be done
in the request URL?

Original comment by scaryunc...@gmail.com on 4 May 2010 at 7:25

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Do it!

Original comment by ygorhiro...@gmail.com on 8 Jun 2010 at 6:34

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Please relase the API!

Original comment by vicen...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2010 at 6:09

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Please, make this one come out.

Original comment by guerri...@gmail.com on 16 Jun 2010 at 12:12

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Yes please, release the Movie API.

Original comment by get...@gmail.com on 16 Jun 2010 at 1:07

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Movie API! Pretty please!

Original comment by TheSe...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2010 at 5:49

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Please, please, please!

Original comment by Fabian.S...@googlemail.com on 20 Jul 2010 at 8:37

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eagerly am looking movie and theatre serach api..pls do release

Original comment by wishing....@gmail.com on 23 Jul 2010 at 1:31

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please a small webservice :) 

Original comment by thibaut....@gmail.com on 30 Jul 2010 at 8:56

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I vote for this!

Original comment by alem0l...@gmail.com on 10 Aug 2010 at 6:18

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Another vote from me :)

Original comment by DennisOberhoff on 20 Aug 2010 at 12:55

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@james.m.billings 
http://www.google.com/ig/api?movies=dublin+ireland&sort=0 only returns three 
options.

I think the reason it only returns it that it is used specifically with the 
iGoogle gadget! :(

I vote for this as well!

Original comment by robert.w...@gmail.com on 30 Aug 2010 at 2:58

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yes Im looking for the exact same thing, why is it we can get the results on a 
page as we want them.... 
http://www.google.com/movies?hl=en&near=94705&dq=movies+94705&sort=1&sa=X&ei=Zwy
8TIu6G8aD4QabsI3hDQ&ved=0CCMQxQMoAA

but I cant display this on my site?

Original comment by nicko...@googlemail.com on 18 Oct 2010 at 10:39

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I vote for this as well.

Original comment by fritz.h...@gmail.com on 3 Nov 2010 at 7:44