Does IMDB provide an API? [closed]

Question

I recently found a movie organizer application which fetches its data from the IMDB database.

Does IMDB provide an API for this, or any third party APIs available?

Answer 1

Recently at SXSWi 2012, in their "Mashery Lounge", there was a booth for an IMDB-like API called from rovi. It's not a free API, but according to the sales guy I talked to they offer either a rev share or a flat fee for usage, depending on your budget. I haven't used it yet but it seems pretty cool.

Answer 2

Im pretty confident that the application you found actually gets their information form Themoviedb.org's API(they get most of there stuff from IMDB). They have a free open API that is used alot of the movie organizer/XMBC applications.

Answer 3

NetFilx is more of personalized media service but you can use it for public information regarding movies. It supports Javascript and OData.
Also look JMDb: The information is basically the same as you can get when using the IMDb website.

Answer 4

What about TMDb API ?

You can search by imdb_id with Movie.imdbLookup

XBMC Media Center seems to use it

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

Answer 5

IMDB doesn't seem to have a direct API as of August 2016 yet but I saw many people writing scrapers and stuff above. Here is a more standard way to access movie data using box office buzz API. All responses in JSON format and 5000 queries per day on a free plan

List of things provided by the API

1. Movie Credits
2. Movie ID
3. Movie Images
4. Get movie by IMDB id
5. Get latest movies list
6. Get new releases
7. Get movie release dates
8. Get the list of translations available for a specific movie
9. Get videos, trailers, and teasers for a movie
10. Search for a movie by title
11. Also supports TV shows, games and videos

Answer 6

If you need TV information you can try TVmaze.com.

It's free, fast and reliable. Here is the developer page:

http://api.tvmaze.com/