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).
| Program | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| VideoDB | Andreas Gohr and others | VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It requires the MySQL database and a web server with PHP support; it's released under the GPL license. Read more about VideoDB on its Freshmeat page. |
| IMDB-Film | Michael Stepanov | IMDB::Film is OO Perl interface that allows to retrieve information about movies by its IMDB code or title; there is also a possibility to get information about IMDB persons by their name of code. It's released under the GPL license. |
| libimdb-ruby | Peter Schrammel | a Ruby library that provides some classes to search and retrieve informations about movies from IMDb. It's released under the LGPL license. |
| JMDB | Uwe Freese and Juergen Ulbts | JMDB is a Java based application which uses the IMDb's plain text data files and put these data in a local database; released under a free software license. |
| IMDb Preview | Geva Zeichner | a Firefox extension that allows you to preview movie and actor posters when hovering over their IMDb links; it's released under the Mozilla Public License 1.1. |
| Imdb Services and Insert IMDb Info | logiCode | ImdbServices provides you with .NET 3.5 Classes to search movies by code, title, actors, directors, etc on IMDb; Insert IMDb Info Allows you to search IMDb and then insert film details into your blog entry within Windows Live Writer. Released under the (open source) Microsoft Reciprocal License license. |
| filmuplib | Michele Ferretti | A pure Python script useful to collect movie info from the Italian site filmup.com. Released under the LGPL license. |
| PHP imdb Classes | Giorgos Giagas, Itzchak Rehberg and others |
Classes to access the information on imdb from PHP. Released under the GPL license. |
Sites and papers
A list of links to useful or curious sites.
| Site/Paper | Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
 Cinemelma |
Davide Alberani | My Italian cine-blog. |
| Mining gold from the Internet Movie Database and IMDB Movie-Rating Decoder Ring |
Tom Moertel | Interesting and useful analysis of the IMDb's data. |
| Feature Films | The Internet Archive | Freely downloadable (mostly old) movies in the Public Domain. |
| The Oracle of Bacon | Brett Tjaden and Glenn Wasson | 'cause everyone knows that Kevin Bacon is the center of the universe! |
| IMDb-light | arune.se | A search form tailored for mobile phones. |
| IMDb.com mobile edition | Motorola | A search form tailored for mobile phones. |
