tmdb-bash

Shell script for The Movie DB API

Movie DB CLI

Obtain some basic information about a movie in json format

Requirements

• cURL
• xdg-open (View the Movie Poster)

sudo apt-get install xdg-utils

• jq

sudo apt install jq

Setup

• Go to The Movie DB website and create an account
• Obtain an API key by following the instructions
• Copy your API key to the correct place in the tmdb.sh script

    APIKEY="your api key"

• Run the script

How to use it

Usage :  tmdb.sh [options] title

    title        Title of the movie

    Options:
    -y     Optional year for better search results
    -i     Display the movie poster
    -h     Display this help message

Examples

• Normal Search using title

tmdb.sh "The Mummy"

• Search with year

tmdb.sh -y 2017 "The Mummy"    

    {
        "page": 1,
        "total_results": 1,
        "total_pages": 1,
        "results": [
        {
            "vote_count": 1169,
            "id": 282035,
            "video": false,
            "vote_average": 5.3,
            "title": "The Mummy",
            "popularity": 33.808368,
            "poster_path": "/zxkY8byBnCsXodEYpK8tmwEGXBI.jpg",
            "original_language": "en",
            "original_title": "The Mummy",
            "genre_ids": [
                28,
                12,
                14,
                27,
                53
            ],
            "backdrop_path": "/qedJJ2z9oBYKxxO4Pp8qAkfgPst.jpg",
            "adult": false,
            "overview": "Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from he is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.",
            "release_date": "2017-06-06"
        }
        ]
    }

• Open Movie Poster on Browser

tmdb.sh -i "The Mummy"

The Movie DB CLI for Android Using Termux

• Download Termux Android Emulator from Google Playstore
• put tmdb.sh file in any location on your Android device (Don't forget to add your themoviedb API in the Bash File)
• open the file location via Termux (Give Storage Permission for Termux - https://termux.com/storage.html)
• it requires cURL & jq pack

pkg install curl

pkg install jq

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Miroslav Vidović

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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