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IMDB has become so ad and video ridden over the years that I've stopped using it for the most part. Their recent redesign of the detail pages has made it even less useful. There is a open project at http://tmdb.org which is more like what imdb used to be, and it has an API allowing you to integrate it into your own projects.

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The official iPhone and iPad applications are nice though. My biggest use of IMDb is while I am watching TV or movies and it's more likely I'll have my phone or iPad than my laptop.

http://thetvdb.com/ is another open project (the data is CC and the software is GPL) that's used by XBMC, Plex and others. It's aimed at software, not people, but it's good for episode listings.

Yes, and the iPhone version is better than the Android one. The search field is always there and it remembers your history. The Android app defaults to some adlike "BLOCKBUSTERS THIS WEEK" list that gives me that "I'm afraid to click on anything" feeling and you have to go to the menu in order to search, which is a button press and a screen tap minimum.

Thanks for that, a movie database with an API is a god send for anyone who's had to deal with IMDB's text files.

Wow! Thanks for the link to tmdb.org. Nice alternative. Clean. Easier to navigate.

Agree, it's the most ugliest website out there ranking at top of the search engines. I prefer to use Wikipedia over IMDB.

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