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Grab the info of a movie in a single click.

IMDb'er - IMDb Info Grabber

Features:
  • Ajax
  • BBcode format
  • Html format
  • Friendly interface
  • Movie poster uploaded to imur.com.com as of August 07

Valid search terms:
  • IMDb URL http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/
  • IMDb ID tt1099212
  • Movie Title twilight

Returns the following details (if exists):
  • Movie poster (Average and not too small size)
  • cast
  • description
  • director
  • genre
  • givenRating
  • maxRating
  • plotKeywords
  • poster.imdb
  • poster.imgur
  • ratingCount (no. of votes)
  • runtime
  • stars (main stars from the cast)
  • storyline (short version of description)
  • title
  • writer
  • year
  • URL
  • ID

Imdber.Org

API

Read more at http://imdber.org/#/api

Buy me a beer and have me customize it for you, PM me.

Change Log:
February 06, 2013 -- backend changes
..snipped..
September 19, 2012 -- API
September 14, 2012 -- new variable, trailer
August 28, 2012 -- removed https
August 12, 2012 -- enable https connection :))
Augest 09, 2012 -- Movie posters are now uploaded to imgur.com
August 08, 2012 -- Bug fixes
July 17, 2012 -- Changed the design again. User customization of output now allowed.
March 19, 2012 -- changed the design
..snipped..
January 06, 2012 -- Start of IMDber
 
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Hey mate

I like your work a lot, and I have one question ...
What's the tag for trailer? Your first post here says it supports trailer link, but I can't find it in variables list. I've also tried {{trailer}} and {{movie_trailer}}, but those don't work.

Thanks
 
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Title: Men in Black Year: 1997 Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi Rating: 7.1 (204,647 Votes) Runtime: 98 min Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Writer(s): Lowell Cunningham, Ed Solomon Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino Plot:
Code: 
A streetwise NYPD detective joins a secret organization that polices extraterrestrial affairs on Earth.
IMDb URL:
Code: 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119654/
Trailer:
Code: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyaFEBI_L24
- Break missing after the cover
- Insert breaks to have the post spit out details per line, not continuously.
- Plot very hard to read within 'code' tag
- Preview would be nice.
- Have an option to include Youtube or not.

http://katzddl.ws/imdb/public/
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That one is almost perfect.

Did anyone know that IMDB also features adult movies, so you can use the grabber for that too?
But it finds a trailer for 'Vampires Suck'.
 
^You can actually have those customizations when you signup: Remove the trailer, etc etc.

I changed the default template to make use of
for the plot. I removed the trailer from the default template as well.

As for the line breaks, I don't know what you're referring to they seem to be fine to me.


WD40 said:
thanks, but it's not working fine for me

It just inserts some random code, instead of i.e. "http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi517579801/"
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That is the youtube ID, so you would do something like this:

PHP: 
[b]Trailer:[/b]
[code]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v={{trailer}}[/code]

//or 

<b>Trailer:</b> 
<iframe id="ytplayer" type="text/html" width="450" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/{{trailer}}" frameborder="0"/>
</iframe>
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stefan-te said:
Also for Image is not working, i get only '[ img]h[/img ]' ...
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Unfortunately, yes.

The first one I did 'Batman' was correct, but subsequent tries for other movies delivered (It took the 'alt' from 'Batman', one I did about 5 times earlier).
Note: I customized it to Wordpress code.
<img src="h" alt="Batman"/><br/> <strong>Title:</strong> Hachiko: A Dog's Story <strong>Year of Release:</strong> 2009 <strong>Genre:</strong> Drama, Family <strong>Runtime:</strong> 93 min <strong>Director:</strong> Lasse Hallström <strong>Movie Cast:</strong> Richard Gere, Joan Allen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa <strong>Plot:</strong> A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home. <strong>Rating:</strong> 8.1 (# of votes: 38,492) <strong>IMDb URL:</strong> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1028532/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1028532/</a>
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If this has been corrected, I would say this (with its options) is the best grabber on the Web.

I've noticed that non of these grabbers are not 100% correct. This one delivers a wrong IMG, the Wordpress plugin sometimes gives plots, mostly not.

The one at katz inserts <br> tags, so worthless (out of the box) for wordpress which inserts more <br> tags and you need a script (http://www.textfixer.com/tools/remove-line-breaks.php) to remove the line breaks.

I think you're almost there. And can you add a 'language' tag?
 
Yes I've just issue with images which have not been cached, must have been a change in imgur's API or I rolled back too far. I've also removed the adult filter.
 
Seems to be working fine now. Only the img tag reads still 'Batman' (the first test I did).

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/Ms4rZ.jpg" alt="Batman"/><br/> <strong>Title:</strong> Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku <strong>Year of Release:</strong> 1991 <strong>Genre:</strong> Drama <strong>Runtime:</strong> 98 min <strong>Director:</strong> Akira Kurosawa <strong>Movie Cast:</strong> Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa <strong>Plot:</strong> An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation... <strong>Rating:</strong> 7.2 (# of votes: 3,323) <strong>IMDb URL:</strong> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101991/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101991/</a>

Update: Tag seems to be fixed. Now it's official: this is the best IMDB grabber (because of its customization options).

Anyway for who wants to use it on Wordpress:
<img src="{{poster}}" alt="{{title}}"/><br/>
<strong>Title:</strong> {{title}}
<strong>Year of Release:</strong> {{year}}
<strong>Genre:</strong> {{genre}}
<strong>Runtime:</strong> {{length}}
<strong>Director:</strong> {{director}}
<strong>Movie Cast:</strong> {{stars}}
<strong>Plot:</strong> {{plot}}
<strong>Rating:</strong> {{rating}} (# of votes: {{rating_count}})
<strong>IMDb URL:</strong> <a href="{{imdb_url}}">{{imdb_url}}</a>
 
API

make a POST request to http://imdber.org/api with the following parameters:
  • search - imdb title/url/id

you will get a JSON response with all the available variables (with a 200 HTTP code) if it was successful.

Example:

PHP: 
$ curl -d "search=batman rises" http://imdber.org/api
{"title":"The Dark Knight Rises","poster":"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/uCUp2.jpg","length":"165 min","year":"2012","director":"Christopher Nolan","writer":"Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan","plot":"Eight years on, a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham's finest, and the Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.","stars":"Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway","genre":"Action, Crime, Drama","released":"20 July 2012","rating":"8.8","rating_count":"374,939","trailer":"GokKUqLcvD8","imdb_url":"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1345836\/"}
$ curl -d "nonexistentparam=hello" http://imdber.org/api
{"error":"Invalid Request"}
$ curl -d "search=nonexistentmovie" http://imdber.org/api
{"error":["404 Movie Not Found (81)"]}
 
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