API purpose Interfacing and searching IMDB database
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Comment Surprisingly fun game
So I went to a games night last night to decide who got what teams for the upcoming Euros 2016. I do live an exciting life. Anywho we play a game sometimes where you pick a number in days, hours and minutes and have to name 3 boxsets of popular TV that would get you there.
We found some inconsistencies (and were running out of games) so I had a quick look at the omdbapi (open movie database API) to see how the data was being gathered. I found a quick call that would return the IMDB ratings of movies so I whipped up a quick script to calculate the sum of an arbitrary number of movies.
See attached link in the header for the source. It’s very short and is a pretty standard requests format if you’ve seen any of my other posts. The one style change I made was to use raw_input() instead of a sys.argv() to pass arguments to the script. It’s a lot neater and more flexible for the sort of scripts I’ve been writing so I think I’ll change to using it in the future.
I also won that round …;