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Programs

The table below contains a list of programs based on IMDbPY.

Program Author Description
Series 60 GUI for IMDbPY Davide Alberani A GUI for Series 60 mobile phones (aka "smartphones").
It's released under the GPL license.

imdbpykit

For installation and use, read the README.txt file.

H. Turgut Uyar,
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.

Remember that you MUST respect the IMDb's conditions of use.

imdbpyweb-1.6.tar.gz

Also available in the SVN repository.

Davide Alberani, Martin Kirst 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.

Remember that you MUST respect the IMDb's conditions of use.

Videotheque H. Turgut Uyar 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.
Humphrey 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.
SubDownloader Ivan Garcia an automatic tool to find the subtitles of any video file; it's released under the GPL license.
Enterteiner Lauri Taimila 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.
Cinemania Basil Shubin 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.
quickmovie Yann Ramin 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.
tvrecommend Emre Sevinc Recommends movies on TV, based on previous preferences of the user; it's released under the GPL license.
mOEvIEs ph0b0s a low-dependency movie database program, released under the GPL license.
mediacat

Jörg Zinke 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.

imdbgw-1.0.tar.gz

Also available in the SVN repository.

Davide Alberani 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.

Remember that you MUST respect the IMDb's conditions of use.

vdbpy-1.1.tar.gz

Also available in the SVN repository.

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.

MythTV The MythTV's staff (Hadley Rich?) 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.

Jamu (for MythTV) R.D. Vaughan 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.
pyTivoMetaThis for pyTivo Graham Dunn, maintained by Josh Harding 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.

epgsnoop Hadley Rich 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.
towatch Deepak Sarda 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.
Bottiger
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verily (Antibogon - A B, for the IMDbPY-based portion) 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.
EyeRCbot EyeRCbot staff A modular IRC bot written in Python using the irclib module, released under the MIT License.
imdbpyople-0.7.tar.gz

Also available in the SVN repository.

Davide Alberani 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.

imdbpy-testsuite-4.3.tar.gz
Also available in the SVN repository.
Davide Alberani A test suite for the latest IMDbPY (only for developers).

Sites, services and papers

Services based on IMDbPY, and papers/researches which used IMDbPY to retrieve and manage the needed data.

Link Author Description
Film Cloud - The movies the internet is watching Sam Cavenagh 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.
Automatic Generation of Movie Trailers using Ontologies Svp Group A paper about automatic generation of teasers using ontologies. It's so cool it hurts!
Fobox Flankk A Wikipedia assisted bot designed to create infoboxes for film-related pages or stubs that don't include them.
iphone.savvy.nl/tvgids and iphone.savvy.nl/tvgids/movies Yun Zheng Hu Dutch tvguide web application for the iphone/ipod touch, contains detailed information about programs and has IMDb ratings for movies.
Film/Movie Production Over Time Rufus Pollock An analysis of film/movie production over time.
Correlating Netflix and IMDb datasets and the related netflixprize.com forum thread Ilya Grigorik 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.

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