IMDB is great for looking up movie information (plot, director, actors, rating, etc.), but it currently has no public API. During a recent project for several theater chains, I needed to be able to pull in movie information from IMDB and I already had the IMDB title IDs.

Hence, MovieJS was born to provide a fast, simple IMDB-backed API supporting movie-lookup by IMDB title id as well as some search scenarios.

We leverage cheerio (the excellent jQuery-esque node module) for some nice server-side dom loading and parsing and then resort to regex where we have to.

We do not replicate/persist IMDB data but instead simply cache API query results in Redis using a sliding expiration to avoid uncessary overhead calling IMDB.

• http://api.moviejs.com

• Titles: /v1/titles/:id (where id is IMDB title id) example: The Dark Knight Rises
• Titles (search): /v1/titles/?search=:term (where term is a keyword or phrase) example: Search for "katy perry"

This is very much a work in progress and I'm considering adding other movie-info sources (other than IMDB) should the need or demand arise.