API or any other way to access IMDB TOP 250 list?

Question

I have done extensive research and found that I couldn't find an API. Is there any available API to get the TOP 250 list?

Or another way to get access to the list?

I tried accessing the page HTML and parsing in my JSP backend. But the problem here is that I get only a skeleton, the list loads as AJAX.

Any way of web scraping it?

Any usage Idea would be appreciated...

Answer 1

The easiest way is to just download the data from the IMDb alternate interfaces.

The file you want is ratings.list.gz. The Top 250 films are listed in the first section.