By revlimiter on

Hi everyone,

I am looking to create a Drupal powered website similar to www.imdb.com in all of it's glory!

My question is:
Which modules would you recommend?
And would you recommend going with Drupal 5 or Drupal 6?

Thanks!

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cayenne’s picture

cayenne commented

CCK, 5stars, Views, Advanced Forum, Image stuff.
When it's done, let us know!

May as well go with d6, there's enough there and you'll save yourself pain later.

:)

junro’s picture

junro commented

Hi, do you want to create a movie daabase like Imdb??

haleagar’s picture

haleagar commented

I've got a similar task, not strictly IMDB, but the same type of Person Event relationship. I was not able to see how one could construct that type of bidirectional named relationship between nodes.

But I'm very interested to hear if you have any success.

Hal Eagar
Software Architect
hal.eagar@door3.com

macrodesign’s picture

macrodesign commented

Looking forward to your casestudy, goodluck

dstotijn’s picture

dstotijn commented

Hi,

It might be possible to create a module that uses the API from themoviedb.org:
http://api.themoviedb.org/ ?

Is anybody interested in starting up a module for this? I have no prior module coding experience nor do I know how to work with API's...
Of course I'd love to learn and help where I can.

--David

andrewblack’s picture

andrewblack commented

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ranga’s picture

ranga commented

Did you have any success? I'm looking to do something similar. I'm pretty new to drupal though.

JackCorbae’s picture

JackCorbae commented

For a few years I've been trying to get something like IMDB - for a local theatre company to keep a history of shows, actors and the roles they played - with absolutely no luck.

I'm not a programmer so I'm basically looking for something easy to adapt. IMDB is the best example that I can think of but we want our own database of shows and actors.

Any assistance greatly appreciated!

asmaka’s picture

asmaka commented

Wondering if there has been any update to this post though.
By using Drupal 6, can anyone give out inputs to retieve data from imdb.I am pretty much new to drupal world.

thanks.

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mradcliffe
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Primary language English
commented

I've written "scrapers" in the past. "Scraper" is the term used to describe a tool that uses wget or curl libraries to grab web site pages. It's a form of aggregation although it's frowned upon to steal sites' entire content unless you're mirroring. Sometimes sites will let you grab data via an API they have exposed - like Twitter or Xero.

For IMDB specifically you need to read their licensing terms and consult a lawyer if you have questions about it. If you pay money you can grab data via an API. There is a limited non-commercial license you can read linked from the above page.

toma’s picture

toma commented

I am looking for something like searchthemovies.com http://www.searchthemovies.com

jayaram’s picture

jayaram commented

IS this build using Drupal ?

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

no, it's not drupal, but I don't see anything there that couldn't be done with drupal.

jayaram’s picture

jayaram commented

LEt me know if you are able to do something like that.. is that built on Drupal ?