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IMDB Terminal Browser

https://github.com/isene/IMDB

21•thunderbong•5mo ago

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WarOnPrivacy•5mo ago

This could be cool. I'm recently scouring lists looking for sleepers made 1930s-1980s.

ahartmetz•5mo ago

Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, if you haven't seen it yet.

WarOnPrivacy•5mo ago

I'll watch it this week. Thanks!

oguz-ismail•5mo ago

off-topic but why is there a vim swap file in the repo? https://github.com/isene/IMDB/blob/main/.imdb.swp

ekusiadadus•5mo ago

It's cool.

squishington•5mo ago

Cool project. I've been using this IMDB interface and really like its simplicity: https://github.com/zyachel/libremdb

thrown-0825•5mo ago

How does this access the IMDB api? I thought amazon had some pretty extreme pricing tiers for that.

1f97•5mo ago

it doesn't. it uses https://www.themoviedb.org/ and not imdb

vidyesh•5mo ago

It uses both.

vidyesh•5mo ago

It scrapes.

countmora•5mo ago

Don't want to be that guy, but [1] says

>Robots and Screen Scraping: You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on this site, except with our express written consent as noted below.

[1] www.imdb.com/conditions/

vidyesh•5mo ago

I am not disagreeing with you, I was just pointing out that the cli tool does not use the API but scrapes.

AdieuToLogic•5mo ago

A couple notes regarding the GitHub repo.

First, adding a `.gitignore` with at least the following:

  .*.swp
  *.swp

Would help.

Second, committing the generated `gem` artifacts is not a good practice. Either publish[0] it or let those who use it build and distribute it themselves.

0 - https://guides.rubygems.org/publishing/

M95D•5mo ago

IMDB Virtual Terminal Browser. I was hoping for a console browser.

rudolftheone•5mo ago

It would be great to have an ability to browse all the imdb movies/tv series, not just top 250 - but I like the direction :)