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http://www.themoviedb.org/ is a imdb clone but free and open/run by the community. xbmc uses it for movie lookups if you wish.

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I've recently started developing a django app for syncing with tmdb's data https://bitbucket.org/zalew/django-tmdb/wiki/Home

just released the first commands and everything is in early dev, but it works.

I actually built a movie watchlist and todo list for myself using Django and tmdb. It's live, and the code's on github.

http://movies.tshaddox.com/

https://github.com/baddox/watchlist2

edit:

The code's probably not very "pluggable" or "reusable," since that wasn't a design goal :). It's hopefully readable. Feel free to recommend a film (just search for it on the right sidebar).

> The code's probably not very "pluggable" or "reusable," since that wasn't a design goal :)

cool :) I see we took different approaches.

my app's goal is to provide flexible ways of syncing with db and nothing else, at least for now.

I had forgotten how messy my tmdb API usage is. I'm using some guy's wrapper on pypi[1], as well as a manual fork (read: copy-paste-modify) of what I think is the same guy's github repo.

[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/themoviedb

I use this one https://bitbucket.org/zalew/django-tmdb/src/1b98dccc0f18/tmd...

I'm just building a mango app to sync with IMDb. Oh well...

I'll have a look at yours. I didn't know about tmdb.

Just checked themoviedb.org - but it does not seem like it has a lot of data. How many movies does it have and is it comparable to imdb in size?

No. I always point XBMC at IMDB. tmdb doesn't have nearly the breadth or depth of IMDB.

Although someone already commented and I am late to the party on this one I have yet to see xbmc using tmdb not find a movie I was watching. Sure IMDB can be considered more "complete" but tmdb certainly has popular mainstream titles.

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