Level 50
Did you google IMDb API? There is a metadata API, but it's meant for larger businesses, as the starting price is $150,000 / year.
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Jul 23, 2025
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Level 20
How to verify the api data?
I have created a list of films data in Laravel api ..
Now I need a way to verify those films meta deta like year, director, title and ratings etc are correct 💯 rather than manually go to the imdb website and search then find out the data and match it.
Something like api to api . If possible only with the imdb . Any alternative way.
I will be thankful for your kind help.🙃
Level 20
I've never used them personally, but a possible couple of cheaper options:
Level 20
On the article I found I can use the IMDb scraper with a Laravel package that extract the data into html and that can be used for my need I think..
Tommorow I will give it a try..
Level 122
@Shivamyadav scraping is fragile. It might work for a few weeks and then imdb change the layout, and your checking is broken.
Level 50
@Snapey And also, its legality is a gray area. Movie and show metadata is IMDb's core product. Scraping it may be legal, but using it in any kind of commercial context is risky.
Level 20
@Snapey yeah but I just need to verify my Films table data and after that I will just grab the original data for those films and store into my table that's it ..
Level 20
@JussiMannisto yeah my boss has given me the project to seal my job ðŸ¤
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@ian_h The second option is better for me.
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