External API research

[ruiposse]

We need an external API to give us movies information.

• Title
• Cover
• Actors, etc ...
• Metadata

Let's document in this issue the ones we can find.

[ruiposse]

• http://www.omdbapi.com/
• example request: http://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt1285016

{
  Title: "The Social Network",
  Year: "2010",
  Rated: "PG-13",
  Released: "01 Oct 2010",
  Runtime: "120 min",
  Genre: "Biography, Drama",
  Director: "David Fincher",
  Writer: "Aaron Sorkin (screenplay), Ben Mezrich (book)",
  Actors: "Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter, Dustin Fitzsimons",
  Plot: "Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.",
  Language: "English, French",
  Country: "USA",
  Awards: "Won 3 Oscars. Another 161 wins & 162 nominations.",
  Poster: "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTM2ODk0NDAwMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTM1MDc2Mw@@._V1_SX300.jpg",
  Metascore: "95",
  imdbRating: "7.7",
  imdbVotes: "485,392",
  imdbID: "tt1285016",
  Type: "movie",
  Response: "True"
}

• Pros:
  • IMDB ids
  • RottenTomatoes info "built in" the API (using &tomatoes=true)
• Documentation & URLS
  • http://www.omdbapi.com/
  • http://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt1285016&tomatoes=true

[davidpicarra]

• https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api

https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/find/find-by-id https://api.themoviedb.org/3/find/{external_id}?api_key=<>&language=en-US&external_source=imdb_id

Discussion:

• Will need API key to use it, need to see how many requests are we allowed.
• Can interact with several external sources and is really complete when it comes to metadata around a movie

Git library fot the same API: https://github.com/cavestri/themoviedb-javascript-library/