imdb-party

Not sure why this is big news. There has been a ruby library called imdb-party that I used several years ago to do this: https://github.com/maddox/imdb-party. Leverages the IMDB iOS API also. Here is part of the code I used for simulating their id system (ex: tt0903624): # http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/ require "imdb_party" imdb = ImdbParty::Imdb.new all_movies = (1..999999).map{ |m| "tt" + ("%07d" % m).to_s } (all_movies - current_movies).each do |movie_id| movie = imdb.find_movie_by_id(movie_id) rescue next

The API also returns 'copyright': 'For use only by clients authorized in writing by IMDb. Authors and users of unauthorized clients accept full legal exposure/liability for their actions.' as part of the json with every request made. Since he is using the API key taken from the official app (see: https://github.com/maddox/imdb-party/issues/8#issuecomment-1... ) i really doubt he got anything from them.