Showtimes · a movie showtimes API

Installation

npm install showtimes --save

Usage

var Showtimes = require('showtimes');
var api = new Showtimes(10001, {});

api.getTheaters(function (error, theaters) {
  if (error) {
    throw error
  }

  console.log(theaters);
});

[ { id: '4c9f211a0800ff36',
    name: 'AMC Loews 34th Street 14',
    address: '312 W. 34th St., New York, NY',
    phoneNumber: '(888) 262-4386',
    movies:
     [ { id: 'cfbfd1f634e7638a',
         name: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D',
         runtime: '2hr 16min',
         rating: 'PG-13',
         genre: ['Scifi', 'Fantasy'],
         imdb: 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt08BH9COsI',
         trailer: 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/',
         showtimes: [ '9:30am', '1:00pm', '4:30pm', '8:00pm' ] },
       { id: '89d9737d67580511',
         name: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens',
         runtime: '2hr 16min',
         rating: 'PG-13',
         genre: ['Scifi', 'Fantasy'],
         imdb: 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt08BH9COsI',
         trailer: 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/',
         showtimes: [ '10:00am', '1:30pm', '5:00pm', '8:30pm' ] } ] },
  { id: '7a9fd407207f4951',
    name: 'Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas',
    address: '260 West 23rd Street, New York, NY',
    phoneNumber: '(212) 691-4744',
    movies:
     [ { id: 'cfbfd1f634e7638a',
         name: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D',
         runtime: '2hr 16min',
         rating: 'PG-13',
         genre: ['Scifi', 'Fantasy'],
         imdb: 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt08BH9COsI',
         trailer: 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/',
         showtimes:
          [ '5:20am',
            '10:00am',
            '10:30am',
            '1:05pm',
            '1:35pm',
            '4:10pm',
            '4:40pm',
            '7:20pm',
            '7:50pm',
            '10:30pm',
            '11:00pm' ] }] }
  ...
]

Documentation

API

showtimes(location, options)

• location — The location you want to pull showtimes for. This can be either a zipcode, latitude and Longitude, or a full address.
• options
  • date — Number of days in the future you want to pull showtimes for. (ex. on june 9, 2014, pulling showtimes for july 29 you'd pass in "50")
  • lang — Language of the response, this will localize the movie names, times, etc. (ex. "en" (default) or "tr" for Turkish data)
  • pageLimit — Page limit for request. By default, this returns allm (999) pages.

showtimes.getTheaters(callback)

• callback — Callback function to run after generating a standardized response of theaters.
  • error — Any error messages that were found when doing a query. Null if all is good.
  • theaters — Standardized response of theaters.

showtimes.getTheater(theaterId, callback)

• theaterId — Theater ID for the theater you want to query. You can get this from a getTheaters()orgetMovies()` response.
• callback — Callback function to run after generating a standardized theater response.
  • error — Any error messages that were found when doing a query. Null if all is good.
  • theater — Standardized response for the theater.

showtimes.getMovies(callback)

• callback — Callback function to run after generating a standardized response of movies.
  • error — Any error messages that were found when doing a query. Null if all is good.
  • movies — Standardized response of movies.

showtimes.getMovie(movieId, callback)

• movieId — Movie ID for the movie you want to query. You can get this from a getTheaters() or getMovies() response.
• callback — Callback function to run after generating a standardized movie response.
  • error — Any error messages that were found when doing a query. Null if all is good.
  • movie — Standardized response for the movie.

Standardized Responses

Theater

{
  id: '4c9f211a0800ff36',
  name: 'AMC Loews 34th Street 14',
  address: '312 W. 34th St., New York, NY',
  phoneNumber: '(888) 262-4386',
  movies: [<movies>],
  showtimes: ['9:30am', '1:00pm', '4:30pm', '8:00pm']
}

• id is represented as false if no theater ID could be obtained (usually only happens on some boutique theaters).
• phoneNumber and movies are only available on getTheaters().
• showtimes is only available through getMovies() or getMovie().
• address and phoneNumber are all optional, and not always present for every theater.

Movie

{
  id: 'cfbfd1f634e7638a',
  name: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D',
  runtime: '2hr 16min',
  rating: 'PG-13',
  genre: ['Scifi', 'Fantasy'],
  imdb: 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt08BH9COsI',
  trailer: 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/',
  director: 'J.J. Abrams',
  cast: [<cast>]
  description: 'In this continuation of the "Star Wars" saga, ... the former Rebel Alliance.',
  theaters: [<theaters>],
  showtimes: ['12:20pm', '3:40pm', '6:30pm', '7:00pm', '9:50pm', '10:20pm']
}

• director, cast, description, and theaters are only available from getMovies and getMovie()
• showtimes is only available from getTheaters().
• genre, rating, runtime, imdb, and trailer are all optional, and not always present on every movie.

Upgrading to v2

With v2, I've moved the entire library over to be written in ES6 so components can be easily reused with having the library internals be a proper class. Unfortunately, this has made v2 incompatibe with v1, but thankfully only a few minor things have changed with the API.

1. Instead of calling the library as s = Showtimes(location), you must now instantiate the class with s = new Showtimes(location).
2. The genre response that comes back from API calls is now represented as an array instead of a compounded string.