Crazy idea: Movies based on a book
Andrés Gattinoni
implement it in the future.
Many people like watching movies about books they've read. Aranduka,
being a cool, modern, "social" application could show you information
about movies that were made based on a book.
How?
Well, this is the hard part. As some of you may or may not know, the
IMDb doesn't have an (official) API (there are some implementations
made by some users but, from what I've seen, they're not very
complete). However they provide a series of awful hardly standard
plain text files [0] that you can download. I just saw there's a file
called literature.list [1] which has information about books related
to movies (this includes novels on which the books were based,
monographic books about movies, reviews and other stuff).
The idea would be once we have Aranduka's website, to have a public
interface that Aranduka could check to get movies based on a book.
Can you think of any way of making this easier? Do you know any other
movie database that has a good API that we could use?
I know the idea may be kind of crazy and require too much work for
such a simple feature... but I wanted to share the idea anyway.
[0] http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
[1] ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/movies/database/literature.list.gz
Ramiro Algozino
Good one! I like the idea.. another option would be make it a
"Movies" widget in the "About the Book" view, that could be enabled
and disabled like a plugin.
I saw that there are several websites using that file to create a
database of Movies based on books, may be we can use another database
based on the file.. I'll investigate.. :)
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Ramiro Algozino