dvnlgls / imatch

Find common crew in multiple IMDb credit pages

Find common crew/actors in multiple IMDb credit pages

A quick hack solution inspired by the reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/u35jgx/is_there_any_tool_out_there_that_quickly_filters/

About this tool:

• A Node CLI to find common crew from a list of IMDb credit pages

Installation:

• npm i

Usage:

• In the index.js, add your IMDb urls to the input array
  • CAUTION: The url should be in this exact format: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0838221 (trailing slash is optional). Just change the title ID to suit your need.
• Run npm start or node index.js
• You can add any number of urls to compare. Be warned, if you add many unrelated titles, you're not likely to get a result (no common crew).

Comments:

• On account of being a quick hack, the code is largely untested.
• Only the typical happy path is tested.
• Tested with movie full credit URLs. Behavior with other url types might be unpredictable.
• Feel free to file a bug.

If you like this, check out my other useful project: https://theshowgrid.com/ (See IMDb ratings for all episodes of a TV show in a table)

 

Changelog:

v1.1 (2022-04-15)

• Removed the requirement for trailing slash in the url
• Added a primitive validation to check the input urls
• Added a pretty tabular format for results
  • Result will be alphabetically sorted by first name
• Added a progress indicator while fetching urls

v1 (2022-04-14)

• First release