We wanted to use the movieclips.com API at the 2012 Movie Hack Day but couldn't be bothered with XML. This little goliath app runs on heroku and provides a slimmed down version of their API in JSON instead of XML.

It runs on http://jsonclips.herokuapp.com but to try it out, click the example links below.

Request like this (example)

http://jsonclips.herokuapp.com/search?q=he%20peed%20on%20my%20rug

You get stuff from movieclip.com's API endpoint http://api.movieclips.com/v2/search/videos?q=searchterm but in pretty JSON instead of bulky XML/atom.

Extras:

1. Associated movie id and name from search results (movie clips) are scraped from the description's HTML to allow for filtering and easier navigation.
2. Largest and smallest associated pictures are added to be used as thumbnail or large preview.

Want to search for clips mentioning movie names? No problemo:

http://jsonclips.herokuapp.com/search_title_quote?q=top%20gun

This fetches a search for Top Gun, but excluding the movie Top Gun and mashups and top 10 lists (example).

Tadaa, a search for movie clips that quote other movie names.

You can also exclude movie names from the normal search by appending a exclude_movie=movie1,movie2 parameter like so (example):

http://jsonclips.herokuapp.com/search?q=top%20gun&exclude_movie=top%20gun,mashup,top%2010

Yeah, just append callback=your_callback to the query string and you gots teh data.