Movie API

[yauhofung]

Potential API candidate for our movie search engine: https://imdb-api.com/

[ddesir]

I was looking at it this morning. I downloaded the documentation, but I have no clue whether it is free or not.

[Henotis]

Cat API:

• https://docs.thecatapi.com/ Public APIs all:
• https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

[yauhofung]

It looks like the Public APIs repository that Henry posted has quite a few movie APIs to choose from. https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis#video

[ddesir]

These seem to be the only Movie search related APIs under video: http://www.omdbapi.com/ https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api https://trakt.tv/b/api-docs

[jonathan-chin]

the imdb database is free for the first 1,000 calls per day I looked at themoviedb.org and it might actually be the best solution trakt might be another good resource. however, I can't seem to find pricing for them. themoviedb.org is explicitly free so long as you credit them.

[Henotis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqSSLr8A8PU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrJIJuaZsjA First one is a full website guide for movieDB Second link is a shorter guide for fetching movieDB API

[Henotis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-_H6TdXgiU&list=PL_kAgwZgMfWyZ6m8fDwdiwEarr_g6nFxz The creator of the 2nd youtube link also covers pagination in his movieDB playlist here

[jonathan-chin]

hi all, just double checking. have you decided on an api to use? if so, you can comment it and close this issue.

[ElvisRodriguez]

Just to give my 2 cents, I used OMDB api and got around the 1000 daily request limit by caching the requests. So the api would only be called for movies that the application has not yet saved.

Alternatively, if there isn't enough time to build a backend DB to cache data, their lowest tier patreon is only $1 and allows 100,000 daily requests.

[yauhofung]

Since The Movie Database (TMDb) has plenty of videos demonstrating its usage, we will use it for the capstone project moving forward.