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Interesting! But it seems these datasets don't contain the description of each movie? Do you know where tools such as Jellyfin or Plex get them? Do they simply scrape the website?

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The Movie Database (TMDB) is a good resource for this. Likewise, TVMaze offers some details / media missing from TMDB for TV shows.

https://www.themoviedb.org/ https://www.tvmaze.com/

I found OMDB to be the best for my spaghetti of code

https://www.omdbapi.com/

https://github.com/jgbrwn/my-upc/blob/main/app.py

https://my-upc.com

Not heard of OMDB before, thanks, will give it a go

By default, Jellyfin uses TMDB (TheMovieDb) and OMDB (The Open Movie Database) as its metadata providers

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