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Get Movie by barcode
posted by azzedinehassainiSTAFFMOD on March 25, 2013 at 12:57 PM
Hello guys! I'm currently developping a Windows 8 app with you api. This app will allow user to manage his personal collection of movies. I want to add a feature that allows the user to scan a barcode from his DVD/Bluray and add the movie to his collection. For example : When I scan the DVD Fight Club, I got the string "024543044789".
I would like to have the title of my movie from that barcode.
Do you know how I can do that? I think there is nothing in this API that can help me, but if you have another way to do it, it would be great!
(Sorry for my poor English, I'm from Belgium :) )
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 25, 2013 at 1:27 PM
Hi azzedinehassaini,
Unfortunately we do not maintain any barcode data so there's nothing on TMDb that can really help you. I think that maybe, Amazon has something like this but I am honestly not sure.
Reply by Alex Marcum
on July 30, 2013 at 11:39 PM
Are there any plans to add barcode(s) to to a particular movie id in TMDB? I have heard a few of my friends mention different apps (Android, iOS, and web) that they want to create that could leverage a barcode field.
Thanks for the help,
Alex
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 31, 2013 at 9:22 AM
Hi Alex,
No, we do not have any plans for this.
Reply by Tony Kyle
on August 4, 2013 at 10:10 AM
Dang, I'm needing the same functionality for a personal learning application using a UPC scanner.
Reply by angelxmoreno
on September 6, 2013 at 6:07 PM
this can easily be achieved my cross referencing the Amazon API to pick up UPC codes. it would return movie data.Issue is correlating the movie data with the data on tmdb. maybe doing a query on the title and primary_release_year would be accurate enough.