Large film/movie database claiming:
- 425,000+ titles
- 1,700,000 + filmographies of cast and crew members
- Films from 1891 to Present
- Foreign and independent movies, television movies and shows, new and future releases, and more
Information on database structure can be found here: http://us.imdb.com/Licensing/structure.html. Individual files are gzipped an in a bespoke text format structure for which standard libraries exist e.g. IMDbPy.
Information on history and development (including 'enclosure') on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet_Movie_Database
Openness: NOT OPEN
License: Not open. From http://www.imdb.com/interfaces.html:
"Please refer to the copyright/license information listed in each file for instructions on allowed usage. The data is NOT FREE although it may be used for free in specific circumstances."
See also information on:
Access: Good.
- www: yes. (website itself).
- api: no.
- bulk: yes. See http://www.imdb.com/interfaces.html which provides links to plain text db dumps along with tools for manipulating the dumps. Several people have built interfaces e.g.
- http://www.python.org/pypi/IMDb/0.1.2
- http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/
Resources
ftp index of all the IMBD dump files (which are themselves gzips of a bespoke plain text format)
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/movies/database/ [downloaded 5 times]
Additional Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Source | http://imdb.com/ |
| Author | IMDb |
| Maintainer | Maintainer not given |