ruby-tmdb¶ ↑

ruby-tmdb is an ActiveRecord-style API wrapper for TheMovieDB.org (TMDb). ruby-tmdb is designed to streamline common tasks associated with finding information about movies and cast members.

require 'rubygems'
require 'ruby-tmdb'

# setup your API key
Tmdb.api_key = "t478f8de5776c799de5a"

# setup your default language
Tmdb.default_language = "en"

@movie = TmdbMovie.find(:title => "Iron Man", :limit => 1)
# => <OpenStruct>

@movie.name
# => "Iron Man"

@movie.posters.length
# => 12

@movie.posters.first.data
# => [binary blob representing JPEG]

For ease of use ruby-tmdb is packaged as a Rubygem. Installing it is as simple as:

gem install ruby-tmdb

There are 3 main methods you can use to get information about movies and cast members:

Find information about an individual movie, or a set of movies that share a similar title, eg:

TmdbMovie.find(:title => "fight club", :limit => 10, :expand_results => true, :language => "en")

Parameters:

:id

Specifies an individual movie via it’s TMDb id

:title

Specifies a query string to look for in the movie titles

:imdb

Specifies an individual movie via it’s IMDB id

:limit

Specifies the maximum number of results to be returned

:expand_results

The TMDb API by default returns only partial info for any API method that can return multiple results. When :expand_results is set to true ruby-tmdb automatically makes extra API calls to fetch the full information for each item. This can result in very slow requests though. If you only need basic information for a search listing then set this to false. Defaults to ‘true’.

:language

Allows you to override the default API language on a per-query basis.

You must supply at least one of :id, :title, or :imdb. All other parameters are optional.

Find information about a set of movies grouped by one or more defined criteria, eg:

TmdbMovie.browse(:order_by => "rating", :order => "desc", :genres => 18, :min_votes => 5, :page => 1, :per_page => 10, :language => "en", :expand_results => true)

Parameters:

query_options

These are defined by the TMDB.org API, for more info on which options are available please have a look at the ‘browse’ API documentation

:expand_results

See TmdbMovie

:language

See TmdbMovie

Find information about an individual cast member, or a set of cast members sharing similar names, eg:

TmdbCast.find( :id => 123, :name => "Brad", :limit => 1, :expand_results => true, :language => "fr")

:id

Specifies an individual cast member via their TMDb id

:name

Specifies a query string to look for in the cast names

:limit

See TmdbMovie

:expand_results

See TmdbMovie

:language

See TmdbMovie

You must supply at least one of :id or :name. All other parameters are optional.

Find all movies whose titles match a given string:

@movies = TmdbMovie.find(:title => 'Iron Man')

Find the movie most likely to be associated with a given title:

@movie = TmdbMovie.find(:title => 'Sin City', :limit => 1)

Find a single movie by it’s TMDb ID:

@movie = TmdbMovie.find(:id => 187)

Find a single movie by it’s IMDB ID:

@movie = TmdbMovie.find(:imdb => 'tt0401792')

Find all cast members whose names match a given string:

@actors = TmdbCast.find(:name => 'Fred')

Find an individual cast member via their TMDb ID:

@actor = TmdbCast.find(:id => 101)

Get the info for a movie in French:

@movie = TmdbMovie.find(:title => 'Sin City', :limit => 1, :language => "fr")

To find out more about the information each object offers on retrieved items have a look at the TMDb API Docs. For the most accurate information about the information available have a look at the data directly through ruby-tmdb by calling @item.raw_data.inspect

Author

Aaron Gough

Contributors

Alex Hayes, Alvaro Pereyra Rabanal, Linus Oleander, aristides, Robin Boutros

Copyright © 2010 Aaron Gough (thingsaaronmade.com), released under the MIT license