anoopprasad / tmdb_party

Simple ruby wrapper to themoviedb.org (http://api.themoviedb.org/2.0/docs/) using HTTParty

tmdb_party¶ ↑

Simple ruby wrapper to themoviedb.org (api.themoviedb.org/2.0/docs/) using HTTParty

usage:¶ ↑

gem install tmdb_party
require 'rubygems'
require 'tmdb_party'

example:¶ ↑

@tmdb = TMDBParty::Base.new('key')
results = @tmdb.search('transformers')

results.length
  # => 5

transformers = results.detect{|m| m.name == "Transformers"}

transformers.popularity
  # => 31
transformers.score
  # => 1.0
transformers.imdb_id
  # => 'tt0418279'

# some attributes don't come back with the search result, they are lazily loaded on demand
transformers.homepage
  # => "http://www.transformersmovie.com/"
transformers.trailer.url
  # => "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eduwcuq1Exg"

transformers.genres.collect{|cat| cat.name}.include?("Adventure")
  # => true

recent additions:¶ ↑

# Support for browsing movies http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/methods/Movie.browse
@tmdb.browse({:query => 'Transformers')

# Support for looking up Media info based on the file hash
# http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/methods/Media.getInfo
@tmdb.get_file_info(file)

# Support for Language Tags http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/language-tags
# All methods support an optional locale as the final method parameter
@tmdb.search('transformers', 'fr')

what is themoviedb.org?¶ ↑

It’s a movie database, kind of like IMDB except it’s more of a community wiki. They also have an api that they’re cool with people using. More on the api here: api.themoviedb.org/2.1

Contributors¶ ↑

Jon Maddox (github.com/maddox)

Magnus Bergmark (github.com/Mange)

Brian Lopez (github.com/brianmario)

Federico Ravasio (github.com/razielgn)

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2011 John Duff. See LICENSE for details.