API to get list of movies by actor or director? [closed]

Question

I am looking for an api to download a list of movies when the search term is an actor, actress or director.

So if actor = "Tom Cruise", I get a list of all his movies. If director = "James Cameron", I get a list of all the movies he directed.

I have checked the sites which use iMDB's api but they search by movie title or imdb id. Same for RottenTomatoes.

I am aware of IMDb's text files.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

http://www.theimdbapi.org makes this information available via a RESTful JSON API.

From their examples:

http://www.theimdbapi.org/api/find/person?name=jim+carrey

returns all of the info regarding Jim Carrey's films.

I don't believe that it has the parameters to get quite as detailed as you were hoping for, but it could certainly give you the bulk of the information you need.

Edit:

I also noticed that the other posted solution is no longer working. Seems that the location of the documentation for themoviedb.org is actually at this location now:

https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/people

Honestly, it seems a bit more robust.

(I also realized after posting how old this actual issue is, but hopefully it is still helpful to someone who stumbles upon it.. )