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Update 2009-12-16

Looking for help in hosting

If you have a server that hosts PHP and you want to support the Scraper service please contact me (info at thumnet dot com).

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Update 2009-12-12

Service currently down, due to too many request to IMDb, working on a fix!

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Update 2009-12-09

• Added Picture in imdb-name request
• Added result count limitation param (see the guide)
• Some small bugfixes:
  • missing tt and nm prefix in ImdbID property in imdb-name-search request,
  • missing ImdbID for Writers and Directors in imdb-title request,
  • changed Season and Episode in imdb-episode request to SeasonNR and EpisodeNR
  • added result type to the summary element, to identify the result data

Update 2009-12-02

• Added Name search functionality, with imdb-name-search url param (imdb-search is now imdb-title-search)
• Added Name details, with imdb-name url param

Update 2009-12-01

• Fixed the Plot and Tagline for imdb title’s, see comments below.

It’s been some time since my post about the IMDB webservice but I’m proud to tell you readers there is a new version available.

Some important changes include:

• Restructured output (sorry to you guys who have to update their software)
• Output available in XML, JSON and debug (other output formats can be added on request)
• Automatic support for gzipping the output
• Summary information, containing:
  • data source
  • timestamp of the data
  • time taken in ms
  • scraper info
  • error code (0 for no error!) and error description
• Easily extendable scrape framework, so in the future more sites can be scraped!
• Admin interface to review the data you guys produce

Still interested or just curious?

Well the new url is: http://scraper.thumnet.com

The old version (imdb.thumnet.com) will only be available until 1 december 2009.

New version available!
Read my update post.

The site imdb.thumnet.com is a personal project that I recently released on the web.

This webservice/api supplies an interface for the Internet Movie DataBase (in short IMDB). It gives you the abbillity to search for, or view details of,  a movie with a REST like request.

Some examples are:

• Searching for the matrix
  http://imdb.thumnet.com/xml/search/the+matrix/
• Getting details for the matrix (id tt0133093)
  http://imdb.thumnet.com/xml/title/tt0133093/

The output for the result of the request can be as XML or JSON. This makes it fairly easy to integrate movie information on you’re personal site.

For more information check out the site yourself.

If you encounter any problems please report them as a comment below.