[Solved] How to get year of a movie or TV Show from IMDB [closed]

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The OMDB ABI might be of help in this instance. All you would need to do is send an HTTP request (including the a movie’s title to the service). Assuming a match, you will get back a JSON-formatted string containing the movie in question’s year.

For example:

Request:

http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=Batman&y=&plot=short&r=json

Response:

{“Title”:”Batman”,“Year”:”1989″,”Rated”:”PG-13″,”Released”:”23 Jun 1989″,”Runtime”:”126 min”,”Genre”:”Action, Adventure”,”Director”:”Tim Burton”,”Writer”:”Bob Kane (Batman characters), Sam Hamm (story), Sam Hamm (screenplay), Warren Skaaren (screenplay)”,”Actors”:”Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl”,”Plot”:”The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.”,”Language”:”English, French”,”Country”:”USA, UK”,”Awards”:”Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 21 nominations.”,”Poster”:”http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTYwNjAyODIyMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDMwMDk2._V1_SX300.jpg“,”Metascore”:”66″,”imdbRating”:”7.6″,”imdbVotes”:”235,641″,”imdbID”:”tt0096895″,”Type”:”movie”,”Response”:”True”}

You could use CURL to get this data:

$service_url="http://www.omdbapi.com/";
   $curl = curl_init($service_url);
   $curl_post_data = array(
        "t" => 'batman',
        );
   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post_data);
   $curl_response = curl_exec($curl);
   curl_close($curl);

Alternatively, if you don’t mind switching languages, there is also a Python IMDB search package called imdbpy.

In my experience, OMDB is great if you need to make a few quick queries and will always have access to the Internet.

On the other hand, IMDBPY allows you to create a local version of the IMDB data set (in XML or as a SQL DB). This is more suitable for large operations (such as creating a local movie search platform).

Accepted Answer