When I was thought of posting well know APIs, first in my mind its came IMDB API. A simple question why ?
Because they having huge volume of data with different languages, year and lots more content about the movie.
Also when I was searching for any content or movie, I am able to see the link which give way to IMDb from google. So I thought of posting IMDb API first.
How its works.
IMDb providing API which have limited access like title / name search with format json / xml and no documents available in their site. But website http://www.omdbapi.com/ which not affiliate with IMDb, but providing the movie search with flexible way.
first we will see about the IMDb API.
<?php $strUrl = "http://www.imdb.com/xml/find?json=1&tt=on&q=titanic%"; $json=file_get_contents($strUrl); $info=json_decode($json); print_r($info);
Above API will return the array set title_popular, title_exact and title_substring which will have list of array element like id, title, name, title_description, episode_title and description. which search titanic keyword from the tt (title field) return in json format.
Output will be
stdClass Object
(
[title_popular] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => tt0120338
[title] => Titanic
[name] =>
[title_description] => 1997, James Cameron
[episode_title] =>
[description] => 1997, James Cameron
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => tt0098213
[title] => Roger & Me
[name] =>
[title_description] => 1989 documentary, Michael Moore
[episode_title] =>
[description] => 1989 documentary, Michael Moore
)
)
[title_exact] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => tt0051994
[title] => A Night to Remember
[name] =>
[title_description] => 1958,
[episode_title] =>
[description] => 1958,
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => tt0046435
[title] => Titanic
[name] =>
[title_description] => 1953, Jean Negulesco
[episode_title] =>
[description] => 1953, Jean Negulesco
)
)
[title_substring] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => tt0081400
[title] => Raise the Titanic
[name] =>
[title_description] => 1980, Jerry Jameson
[episode_title] =>
[description] => 1980, Jerry Jameson
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[id] => tt0129923
[title] => The Chambermaid on the Titanic
[name] =>
[title_description] => 1997, Bigas Luna
[episode_title] =>
[description] => 1997, Bigas Luna
)
)
)
Now we will see about omdbapi.com api, they are providing list of documented parameters in their website.
| Parameter | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| s |
string (optional) | title of a movie to search for |
| i | string (optional) | a valid IMDb movie id |
| t | string (optional) | title of a movie to return |
| y | year (optional) | year of the movie |
| r | JSON, XML | response data type (JSON default) |
| plot | short, full | short or extended plot (short default) |
| callback | name (optional) | JSONP callback name |
| tomatoes | true (optional) | adds rotten tomatoes data |
omdbapi.com api which search the titanic and display the result.
<?php $strUrl = "http://www.omdbapi.com/?s=titanic"; $json=file_get_contents($strUrl); $info=json_decode($json); print_r($info);
Output will be.
stdClass Object
(
[Search] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[Title] => Titanic
[Year] => 1997
[imdbID] => tt0120338
[Type] => movie
)
[1] => stdClass Object
(
[Title] => Titanic II
[Year] => 2010
[imdbID] => tt1640571
[Type] => movie
)
)
)