This tool makes a best guess at what popular movies are based on a series of heuristics from multiple websites. This then returns a list of movies with their posters and IMDB ID.
Popular movies are based on some general rules:
- Rating greater than the general sentiment of movies currently out
- Released less than a year ago
- At least 3 weeks old to generate a "stable" rating
- Does not consider tastes, categories or genres of movies
You can poll the following JSON file for a list of movies.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/popular-movies/movies.json
- This file is regenerated nightly so it is recommended that you only poll this file once per day
- It is recommended that you take a snapshot of this list and not remove based on the list no longer displaying a particular movie
- Subject to fair use; excessive usage will be rate limited
There are also several other variations of the main file:
| File | Description |
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| movies-metacritic-min50.json | Movies with a minimum score of 50 on Metacritic |
| movies-metacritic-min60.json | Movies with a minimum score of 60 on Metacritic |
| movies-metacritic-min70.json | Movies with a minimum score of 70 on Metacritic |
| movies-metacritic-min80.json | Movies with a minimum score of 80 on Metacritic |
| movies-imdb-min5.json | Movies with a minimum score of 5 on IMDB |
| movies-imdb-min6.json | Movies with a minimum score of 6 on IMDB |
| movies-imdb-min7.json | Movies with a minimum score of 7 on IMDB |
| movies-imdb-min8.json | Movies with a minimum score of 8 on IMDB |
| movies-rottentomatoes-min50.json | Movies with a minimum score of 50 on Rotten Tomatoes |
| movies-rottentomatoes-min60.json | Movies with a minimum score of 60 on Rotten Tomatoes |
| movies-rottentomatoes-min70.json | Movies with a minimum score of 70 on Rotten Tomatoes |
| movies-rottentomatoes-min80.json | Movies with a minimum score of 80 on Rotten Tomatoes |
If you're looking for historical files, you can amend a date to the main file like so:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/popular-movies/movies-20191202.json
This file is only available from December 2, 2019 onwards.
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Make sure you are running Node.js and a local instance of Redis
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If you want to run it locally you can clone this repository and add a
.envfile which includes the following linesTMDB_KEY= -
Then run
npm testand you should see an output of movies showing on your console and the grade it's gotten
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