Hi all. I used to send my requests to www.allocine.fr to gather information about movies. Now, because allocine managers don't want to give access to their database, they blocked their API and made it really unusable for people. That's why I tried to find another way to obtain some data information, and I found TMdb. The trouble is that I already have over 850 movies id's and much more people id's stored, and id's are allocine.fr id s, not compatible with TMdb id s. So I need to create a translation table and convert my allocine.fr id s to TMdb id s. I can do this by requesting the db for each movie and person, but the request number will then be far more than the allowed number (10 requests every 10 Seconds). So here is my question: is there a way to obtain, by ftp, a snapshot of the movie/people database, containing id, title and personne name? if yes, how? if no, I will need to code something with a timer to create my translation table with individual requests for each movie/person.
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Reply by Travis Bell
on May 15, 2013 at 9:19 AM
Hi Twelfpop,
Unfortunately, no we do not have any such access. The only access is via the HTTP API.
We do support IMDB ID's, so if by any chance Allocine also had that ID you can match our data together with that. Otherwise, you'll probably just have to some fuzzy matching with data based on a combination of title and probably cast member matching.
Reply by Twelfpop
on May 15, 2013 at 11:10 AM
Ok then, thank you for your reply. It's going to be the fuzzy matching then, because no imdb id support on allocine side. it will take time for me to migrate :)