Thanks Martin. I'll look into that too. Btw, rottentomatoes.com is also a very famous site and it too has its own API.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Martin Bednar <serafean@gmail.com> wrote:
Le mardi 12 juin 2012 11:24:24 Srikanth S a écrit :
> Thanks for your response Sebastian. Apart from the possible problems you've
> mentioned, I see the following as well:
> 1. Many people would keep movies and such on external media - like external
> HDD. In that case, the analysis needs to be done on a on-need basis - when
> the HDD is connected. Even in that case, parsing through a 1TB HD to find
> and analyze movie files is not practical.
> 2. IMDb explicitly forbids storing the results (except for website caching)
> in any medium. So a static analyzer or cached results in any form is a
> strict no.

Just my $0.02 :take a look at http://themoviedb.org , a movie equivalent to
thetvdb.com, which AFAIK allows storing downloaded info. It might be a better
solution than imdb. It even has an official API.

Martin