imdb-downloader

IMDb provides a data dump for noncommercial use here: https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/

Unfortunately, the data provided is in tsv format and the files are quite large and difficult to work with and join across.

This script downloads zipped files, extracts them, and imports the data into a sqlite database so that queries can be written against it.

Requirements

Linux or Linux-like environment with the following packages installed:

• Bash
• sqlite3
• wget
• gunzip

Usage

git clone git@github.com:thtroyer/imdb-downloader.git
cd imdb-downloader
./run.sh

Open the resulting imdb.db in your favorite sqlite tool and then you can run queries like this:

-- Show all movies/shows, ordered by highest rating first
SELECT *
FROM title_basics AS tb
INNER JOIN title_ratings AS tr ON tb.tconst = tr.tconst
ORDER BY CAST(numVotes AS number) DESC;