Dear TMDb Community,In the next few months, you might notice some changes on our site. My primary goal is, and always has been, to build the best media database on the internet and in order for me to stay true to that goal, we will be making these changes to enable TMDb to be more robust and reliable than before.As you might recall from my, I have some pretty amazing plans for 2020 so stay tuned for some really fantastic launches this year!If you have any questions please contact us at.Sincerely,Travis →. Point of note, just for anyone who is interested, actually importing the IMDB dump into a working, indexed etc. DB, is a bit of a ball ache. You have been warned. It does make for a fascinating tool though and great for testing theories or answering friend's strange questions.
Dump Oracle database into a textual SQL script. I am thinking on what mysqldump or pgdump are doing. So, they dump an active database into a textual file containing the SQL queries, which reproduce this whole database. In MySQL and in PostgreSQL, this is the normal database dump format. Posted by Gary April 16, 2009 September 1, 2009 12 Comments on Extracting a Database From a mysqldump File. Restoring a single database from a full dump is pretty easy, using the mysql command line client’s -one-database option: mysql mysql -u root -p -one-database dbtorestore.
And yeah, you don't want to be creating a sight off it, not just due to the licensing issues, but because it has an insane amount of short films you just don't really need. It is over 1 million items, where I think 70% are shorts.I would recommend just working iterating through the IDs via the API, rather than getting a dump from someone. I am guessing if you need it now, you will most likely needed an updated one later. The best way to do that, is do it yourself. Also, it allows you to range the data in a way that is most useful to yourself. How one person represents the data may well be different to how you want it.If I did have one request, it would be to know what the field sizes were for various things.
Thanks @david.tzoor for asking this question due to the fact that I was looking for a dataset for my college work as well. Using the API to iterate over all movie IDs is pretty unconvenient, but still a passable way to get the data. Also worked with the IMDb dataset and I can confirm that it's a hell of work to get the data into a normalized database. The format of the database is just a mess. I was hoping to get a 'nice' dumb here, at a less 'ancient' platform, unfortunately I was proofed wrong:). I think getting the data is pretty straight forward, one question here was, what is the latest id.This gets your latest movie idAt the time of typing: 432788With regards to the requests of a data dump, the biggest problem is the empty values.When I ran through I found the following (latest id when i ran it was 432,420) but I was using a fairly rudimentary test and it is possible some were missed.VALID::303,923EMPTY::118,148ADULT::10,349TOTAL::432,420I could provide a list of corresponding ids, but it would need to remember that movies could still be deleted, I could have missed something.
Generally speaking I am just stating that I can't be responsible for the accuracy going forward (or even now):). Getting a data dump of anything is rare.IMDB has to do it I believe, due to it's origins. That said, they try and make it as difficult as possible to do anything with.TMDB doesn't offer it.
Neither should it have to. That said, they don't actively prevent people from crawling the API. Offering a dump just gives them more headaches and eats lots of bandwidth as people download it, thinking it will be handy and then never use it.I will say one thing, you know the data pretty well by the time you are done getting it.I have made over 1000 data changes on this site because of it.So it is there if you want it, you just have to get it ahead of time, as it takes a while to get.If you are desperate for a dump (No pun intended) then OMDBAPI offer one if you are willing to pay for it. Only has the same data you can already get from the API, but it comes in a CSV for or some such.Ultimately, the way I have my data set up and indexed is probably very different to how mateinone has his or how the TMDB is originally set up. I know I have a lot more validation on mine, which is what often results in me fixing data on here.I think what is offered here is a fair compromise.Just comes down to how much you want it.
Certainly keeps the headaches down f an already busy workforce. Adi hits two big points for me:Offering a dump just gives them more headaches and eats lots of bandwidth as people download it, thinking it will be handy and then never use it.Ultimately, the way I have my data set up and indexed is probably very different to how mateinone has his or how the TMDB is originally set up.That second point in particular is going to be the biggest one for sure. I've struggled at times over the years to keep up with our growth and feature demands so the DB is very likely to not be setup in a way that a lot of people would find very useful. Keep in mind, this all started as a website to share zip files of images way back in the day.
Things are just a little bit different now days ?Now, I do have plans to offer a downloadable file of invalid ids, that is something I can do to help some people out and have plans for it.