sjlu / popular-movies

Tries to create a list of popular movies based on a series of heuristics

popular-movies

This tool makes a best guess at what popular movies are based on a series of heuristics from multiple websites. This then returns a list of movies with their posters and IMDB ID.

Popular movies are based on some general rules:

• Rating greater than the general sentiment of movies currently out
• Released less than a year ago
• At least 3 weeks old to generate a "stable" rating
• Does not consider tastes, categories or genres of movies

Usage

⚠️ The URL has changed from https://s3.amazonaws.com/popular-movies/ to https://popular-movies-data.stevenlu.com/ as of September 11, 2023. Access via S3 using TLS 1.0 or 1.1 will be deprecated by AWS on December 31, 2023. Access via S3 will be completely deprecated January 1, 2025.

You can poll the following JSON file for a list of movies.

https://popular-movies-data.stevenlu.com/movies.json

• This file is regenerated nightly so it is recommended that you only poll this file once per day
• It is recommended that you take a snapshot of this list and not remove based on the list no longer displaying a particular movie
• Subject to fair use; excessive usage will be rate limited

There are also several other variations of the main file:

File	Description
movies-metacritic-min50.json	Movies with a minimum score of 50 on Metacritic
movies-metacritic-min60.json	Movies with a minimum score of 60 on Metacritic
movies-metacritic-min70.json	Movies with a minimum score of 70 on Metacritic
movies-metacritic-min80.json	Movies with a minimum score of 80 on Metacritic
movies-imdb-min5.json	Movies with a minimum score of 5 on IMDB
movies-imdb-min6.json	Movies with a minimum score of 6 on IMDB
movies-imdb-min7.json	Movies with a minimum score of 7 on IMDB
movies-imdb-min8.json	Movies with a minimum score of 8 on IMDB
movies-rottentomatoes-min50.json	Movies with a minimum score of 50 on Rotten Tomatoes
movies-rottentomatoes-min60.json	Movies with a minimum score of 60 on Rotten Tomatoes
movies-rottentomatoes-min70.json	Movies with a minimum score of 70 on Rotten Tomatoes
movies-rottentomatoes-min80.json	Movies with a minimum score of 80 on Rotten Tomatoes

If you're looking for historical files, you can amend a date to the main file like so:

https://popular-movies-data.stevenlu.com/movies-20191202.json

This file is only available from December 2, 2019 onwards.

Develop

• Make sure you are running Node.js and a local instance of Redis

• If you want to run it locally you can clone this repository and add a .env file which includes the following lines

  TMDB_KEY=
  

  • https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api

• Then run npm test and you should see an output of movies showing on your console and the grade it's gotten

License

MIT