We wanted to use the movieclips.com API at the 2012 Movie Hack Day but couldn't be bothered with XML. This little goliath app runs on heroku and provides a slimmed down version of their API in JSON instead of XML.
It runs on http://jsonclips.herokuapp.com but to try it out, click the example links below.
Request like this (example)
http://jsonclips.herokuapp.com/search?q=he%20peed%20on%20my%20rug
You get stuff from movieclip.com's API endpoint http://api.movieclips.com/v2/search/videos?q=searchterm but in pretty JSON instead of bulky XML/atom.
Extras:
- Associated movie id and name from search results (movie clips) are scraped from the description's HTML to allow for filtering and easier navigation.
- Largest and smallest associated pictures are added to be used as thumbnail or large preview.
Want to search for clips mentioning movie names? No problemo:
http://jsonclips.herokuapp.com/search_title_quote?q=top%20gun
This fetches a search for Top Gun, but excluding the movie Top Gun and mashups and top 10 lists (example).
Tadaa, a search for movie clips that quote other movie names.
You can also exclude movie names from the normal search by appending a exclude_movie=movie1,movie2 parameter like so (example):
http://jsonclips.herokuapp.com/search?q=top%20gun&exclude_movie=top%20gun,mashup,top%2010
Yeah, just append callback=your_callback to the query string and you gots teh data.