ImdbPHP provides an API to the movie information stored at the IMDb.COM and MoviePilot sites. As this and the name suggests, it is primarily targeted at PHP programmers who want to extend their programs or their site with this movie information. The classes must be used in accordance with IMDb's/MoviePilot's copyright and conditions of use.
| Tags | Internet Web Dynamic Content Indexing/Search CGI Tools/Libraries Software Development Libraries php classes |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | PHP |
| Translations | English |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Many changes on the IMDB sites required many fixes. Though not all problems are solved yet, this release addresses most issues related to the core functionality.


Release Notes: This is a maintenance release. Due to heavy changes on the IMDB sites, many important methods broke. This should fix most of them.


Release Notes: This release mainly fixes things broken by IMDB site changes. There are some minor enhancements.


Release Notes: This release mainly fixes things broken by IMDB site changes. There are some minor enhancements.


Release Notes: Site changes again broke several methods in the imdb class, which are now hopefully fixed. imdb::get_episode_details() was extended to also provide the "airdate", plus more genres are retrieved.
Recent comments
26 May 2008 20:54
Illegal use of data
As the License and Site Access (www.imdb.com/help/show...) will tell you, screen scraping is not allowed. Please do mention that on your freshmeat page.
I quote:
"Robots and Screen Scraping: You may not use data mining, robots, screen scraping, or similar data gathering and extraction tools on this site, except with our express written consent as noted below."