movie-analyser

A PHP script to take a list of films and collate some stats, such as popular genres, actors, directors, eras and ratings.

Requirements

PHP 5.2.x or higher
cURL
TMDb API-key

Usage

Acquire an API key for TMDb, following the instructions on http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/ (it's usually pretty fast).
Put API key into collate.php in the constants.
Get a big ol' list of films, and provide them one per line to collate.php via stdin.
- An example list (movies.txt) is provided
- The script will use the best match, so if you have an ambiguous title, add the year in brackets, for example "True Grit (2010)".
- For best results, use the US title of the film
Once done, a movies.json file will be output with all the generated statistics
You can run this through analyse.php to get an overview, or do something else entirely with the data!

Fork me!

I'm particularly interested to see any additional stats generated, but bugfixes and optimisations are also welcome. For me it was important to get something together quickly so I could spend more time making pretty infographics with the output ;)

You can find out more about the API methods available here: http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/

Remember that anything you develop using this code should abide by the TMDb terms and conditions.

Thanks

TheMovieDb.org for the excellent free data.
Jonas De Smet (glamorous) for the TMDb API class.

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