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A simple utility to easily fetch movie metadata from a list of movie titles using the API from the Open Movie Database.
I have a lot of movies on an external harddirve, and wanted to organize them easily with poster art, plot, actors, genres, etc. I had been using a GUI app for this but I would have to open each file individually and tag them with their respective metadata. This was fine, except sometimes I don't have an internet connection and need to get a movies' metadata. This caused me to search for datadumps from various websites (tmdb, imdb, omdb, and even wikipedia) with no luck. I could easily find titles of movies (based on their release year) but I was missing the rest of their metadata.
So I decided to create my own program that would do this automatically. movie-metadata is the starting part of this program. I am currently fetching metadata from omdb based on lists of movie titles gathered from various websites. movie-metadata is being used right now to download movie metadata for offline use.