#PROGRAMS
A list of programs based on IMDbPY.
A GUI for Series 60 mobile phones. It's
released under the GPL license. Unfortunately it's mostly
out-of-date, so if someone wants to revive its development, drop us
a note.
Series 60 GUI for IMDbPY
Davide Alberani
A web interface to the IMDb data. This is the new web interface of
choice to every information accessible through IMDbPY; it's able to
serve data in both XML and HTML format.
For installation and use, read the README.txt file.
Remember that you MUST respect the IMDb's conditions of use.
For installation and use, read the README.txt file.
Remember that you MUST respect the IMDb's conditions of use.
imdbpykit
H. Turgut Uyar, Davide Alberani
A web interface to the IMDb data. This is a web interface to every
information accessible through IMDbPY; the output is not suitable
for old browser or mobile phone, so you can also take a look at
imdbgw below.
This project is a little outdated, and you probably should use imdbpykit (see above).
Also available in the Mercurial repository.
Remember that you MUST respect the IMDb's conditions of use.
This project is a little outdated, and you probably should use imdbpykit (see above).
Also available in the Mercurial repository.
Remember that you MUST respect the IMDb's conditions of use.
imdbpyweb-1.6.tar.gz
Davide Alberani, Martin Kirst
A video collection manager for Plone: Videotheque provides the necessary
content types and related tools to help you manage a video
collection; it's released under the GPL 3 license.
Videotheque
H. Turgut Uyar
Humphrey is a project for developing
applications and tools for managing a video collection. It uses
SQLAlchemy for storing the data and IMDbPY for getting information
from the IMDb. The first frontend is being implemented in wxPython.
Released under the term of the GNU GPL license.
Humphrey
H. Turgut Uyar
AlMoviesRenamer cares about automatically
rename your movie files, searching for information on the web. It's
released under the GPL v3 license.
AlMoviesRenamer
Alberto Malagoli
pyIRDG is a program written in Python to generate relational datasets in Prolog format, with a Qt GUI. It's released under the GNU GPL license version 2.
PyIRDG
Jef Van den Brandt
A small project designed to solve the old 'Kevin Bacon' game the old-fashioned way. Released under the GPL v3 or later license.
KevinBacon
Ian Havelock
MovieDB is an application that lets you easily
manage your digital movie collection for Mac OS X. It's released
under the MIT license.
MovieDB
Julian Mayer
CouchPotato (CP) is an automatic NZB and
torrent downloader. You can keep a "movies I want"-list and it will
search for NZBs/torrents of these movies every X hours. Once a
movie is found, it will send it to SABnzbd or download the torrent
to a specified directory.
CouchPotato
Ruud Burger
Diribeo is an open source application which
allows you to organize your series collection. It's released under
the MIT license.
Diribeo
David Kaufman
MythBox is a MythTV frontend for the XBMC media player and entertainment hub. It's
released under the GPL license.
MythBox
analogue
See also this
script from count_zero
Smewt is a smart media manager. It goes
looking for your media files (movies, series, ...) and
automatically recognizes them and gets more information on them
from the web. It presents your collection not as a list of files,
but as semantically related information, all of this in a slick
interface. It's released under the GPL 3 license.
Smewt
Nicolas Wack
Metals is a command-line script which
retrieves and stores movie metadata from IMDb to local sqlite
database. It's released under the MIT license.
metals
dblips
An automatic tool to find the subtitles of any
video file; it's released under the GPL license.
SubDownloader
Ivan Garcia
A Python extension to the Nautilus file manager, to retrieve
information about video files. See a detailed explanation about how
to build Nautilus extensions here.
Nautilus IMDb Property Page
Saravanan Thirumuruganathan
Entertainer aims to be a simple and
easy-to-use media center solution for Gnome and XFce desktop
environments. Entertainer is written completely in Python using
object-oriented programming paradigm; it's released under the GPL
license.
Enterteiner
Lauri Taimila
A personal movie library for the Web. It
supports user logins with different permissions, CSS themes, and
translations. Cinemania allows you to store information on your
movies and track who has borrowed them; it's released under the GPL
3 license.
Cinemania
Basil Shubin
A movie browser designed around an input list
consisting of filesnames which match the approximate name of the
movie. By using IMDB, quickmovie can grab cover art, titles,
summaries, etc for movies. It's released under the GPL 3 license.
quickmovie
Yann Ramin
lm is a command-line tool which lists movies, loosely inspired from
ls. Extra features allow you to download subtitles, and interact with
the opensubtitles hash database. lm is not english oriented, and is
able to provide information for all movie files.
For a more detailed description with examples read this post
It's released under the GPL 3 license.
For a more detailed description with examples read this post
It's released under the GPL 3 license.
lm (list movies)
Guillaume "RedRise" Garchery (based on a work by Goffi)
Recommends movies on TV, based on previous
preferences of the user; it's released under the GPL license.
tvrecommend
Emre Sevinc
A free, easy to use, frontend for multimedia files; mediacat
(former mediabox) is a so called home theatre pc platform (HTPC).
It uses IMDbPY as an optional dependency; it's released under the BSD license.
It uses IMDbPY as an optional dependency; it's released under the BSD license.
mediacat
Jörg Zinke
A simple CGI gateway to the IMDb database, based on the IMDbPY
package; it can be used to access IMDb's data from a simple
low-band terminal, as a mobile phone with WAP support.
Also available in the Mercurial repository.
Remember that you MUST respect the IMDb's conditions of use.
Also available in the Mercurial repository.
Remember that you MUST respect the IMDb's conditions of use.
imdbgw-1.0.tar.gz
Davide Alberani
A set of scripts to manage the VideoDB database from the command line. With
vdbpy you can add a single new movie or modify an existing database
fetching data from IMDb; it's also possible to add a batch of
movies with a single run.
Also available in the Mercurial repository.
Also available in the Mercurial repository.
vdbpy-1.1.tar.gz
Davide Alberani
MythTV is a homebrew PVR project with a lot of features, released
under the GPL license.
IMDbPY is only used (by the svn version) as an external script, to perform movie data lookups.
IMDbPY is only used (by the svn version) as an external script, to perform movie data lookups.
MythTV
The MythTV's staff (Hadley Rich?)
Jamu performs a variety of utility functions
on mythvideo metadata and its associated video files and
directories; released under the term of the GNU GPL 2 license.
Jamu (for MythTV)
R.D. Vaughan
A program to stream your movie files to an unhacked TiVo, released
under the GPL license.
IMDbPY is used by external script, to perform movie data lookups.
IMDbPY is used by external script, to perform movie data lookups.
pyTivoMetaThis for pyTivo
Graham Dunn, maintained by Josh Harding
A python package which wraps the dvbsnoop program and generates
XMLTV data. The data is usable for MythTV and possibly other PVR systems.
Released under the MIT license.
epgsnoop
Hadley Rich
A tool for organizing and tagging your media
library, released under a BSD license.
meliman
Matthew Trumbell
Sandoval is a movie application build with the
Django Framework. Its main purpose is to show the capabilities of
Django. Sandoval is released under a BSD license.
sandoval
Markus Zapke-Gründemann, Stephan Hoyer
A Python script which first fetches the list of bookmarked movies
from del.icio.us
using feedparser;
the retrieved data is then written in a XML file.
towatch
Deepak Sarda
A Python script which returns a text string
containing the original air date for the last aired and next
upcoming episodes of a TV series title. It also provides the plot
for the next upcoming episode, if available. It's used as part of a
DC bot.
Bottiger or the recipe on activestate
verily (Antibogon - A B, for the IMDbPY-based portion)
A modular IRC bot written in Python using the
irclib module, released under the MIT License.
EyeRCbot
EyeRCbot staff
A CGI that makes you randomly jump from an actor/actress/director
to another one who have worked with the given person, for the fun
of it.
Also available in the Mercurial repository.
Also available in the Mercurial repository.
imdbpyople-0.7.tar.gz
Davide Alberani
A test suite for the latest IMDbPY (only for developers).
Also available in the Mercurial repository.
Also available in the Mercurial repository.
imdbpy-testsuite-4.8.tar.gz
Davide Alberani
Generates a fancy Web page from a folder with movies files.
Written in Python, released under the Beer-ware License.
Written in Python, released under the Beer-ware License.
folder-theater
Mathieu Leplatre
#SERVICES and PAPERS
Services based on IMDbPY, and papers/researches which used IMDbPY to retrieve and manage the needed data.
free-form queries on keywords in a database.
Qunits: Queried Units for Database Search
Arnab Nandi, H. V. Jagadish
Film Cloud is a movie recommendation engine which monitors internet
activity to collate a comprehensive list of movies that are
currently in vogue. These movies are then displayed in a simple but
descriptive manner with links to IMDB and YouTube trailers, allowing you to easily find
the next movie you'll be watching.
Film Cloud - The movies the internet is watching
Sam Cavenagh
A paper about automatic generation of teasers
using ontologies. It's so cool it hurts!
Automatic Generation of Movie Trailers using Ontologies
Svp Group
The paper describes a new approach to defining
genre. Very very cool!
Likability-Based Genres: Analysis and Evaluation of the Netflix Dataset
Andrew M. Olney
In-deep course about optimization of a MySQL
database; it extensively uses the database created by IMDbPY.
MySQL: Optimizing Queries with Explain
Morgan Tocker (percona)
An analysis of keyword search strategies for structured data.
Schema and data can be downloaded from this
page.
A Framework for Evaluating Database Keyword Search Strategies
Joel Coffman and Alfred C. Weaver
Searching for a solution of a Games Magazine contest, using IMDbPY (code
included).
Solving Games Magazine's "Role Playing 4"
A Wikipedia
assisted bot designed to create infoboxes for film-related pages or stubs that
don't include them.
Fobox
Dutch tvguide web application for the
iphone/ipod touch, contains detailed information about programs and
has IMDb ratings for movies.
iphone.savvy.nl/tvgids and iphone.savvy.nl/tvgids/movies
Yun Zheng Hu
Blog post with an analysis of the netflix data, integrating them with
information from IMDb (can be a starting point for working on the netflix
prize (ehi! If someone wins it using IMDbPY, I want my fair
share!) Code and processed data are available.
Correlating Netflix and IMDb datasets and the related netflixprize.com forum thread
Ilya Grigorik
#RELATED PROJECTS
This is a list of projects related to IMDb or movies in general.
If you want to add your project to this list, send me an e-mail with the project's name, an URL, the author, and a short description (please include the running environment, the programming language and the license).
#WEBSITES and PAPERS
A list of links to useful or curious sites.
CinemelmaInteresting and useful analysis of the IMDb's
data.
Mining gold from the Internet Movie Database
and
IMDB Movie-Rating Decoder Ring
Tom Moertel
'cause everyone knows that Kevin Bacon is the
center of the universe!
The Oracle of Bacon
Brett Tjaden and Glenn Wasson
