TerminalIMDB
Dev tools
command line tool
SHOW HN2012
61points
37comments
#379of 1,677 in 2012
Top 23%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Nice work and open-sourcing the code
From 3 comments
Nice work. Just a couple of Python tips in case you wanted them. - Embrace PEP8 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/). It'll help other developers work with your code. -…
hoov on HNInteresting, but you are not the pulling information from Imdb, according to the source code it is using omdbapi.com an independent site which used to be imdbapi.com until amazon…
nivla on HNNice work. I see IMDB still don't have an API. I wrote a little movie comparison web app in the past and had to resort to screen scraping IMDB too. Rotten Tomatoes on the other…
larrydavid on HN
Objections
Uses OMDb API rather than IMDB directly, so some data may be missing
From 1 comment
Interesting, but you are not the pulling information from Imdb, according to the source code it is using omdbapi.com an independent site which used to be imdbapi.com until amazon…
nivla on HN
Scraping IMDB violates its terms of service
From 1 comment
I feel like I must mention the IMDBpy[1] project, its a mature framework/api to access IMDB via the web or to build a local database based on the flatfiles[2] imdb make available…
rlx0x on HN
Requests
Add pulling image URLs
From 1 comment
Pulling down URLs to images would be a really cool and useful addition. Good work though, looks great - will probably end up using this at some point.
kaolinite on HN
Questions
How does it differ from existing IMDB CLI tools
From 1 comment
Had you previously noticed https://github.com/bgr/imdb-cli ? Can you tell us how yours differs from that and other IMDB CLI programs that have come before?
jzwinck on HN
Alternatives named
IMDbPy
From 1 comment
I feel like I must mention the IMDBpy[1] project, its a mature framework/api to access IMDB via the web or to build a local database based on the flatfiles[2] imdb make available…
rlx0x on HN
bgr/imdb-cli
From 1 comment
Had you previously noticed https://github.com/bgr/imdb-cli ? Can you tell us how yours differs from that and other IMDB CLI programs that have come before?
jzwinck on HN
TMDB
From 1 comment
While afaik not as complete, there's also http://www.themoviedb.org/ The main thing missing night be the ability to identify movies uniquely by imbd id... Something that can be…
e12e on HN