Alternate Interfaces
This page describes various alternate ways to access The
Internet Movie Database locally by holding copies of the data
directly on your system. Click here for information on IMDb Content Licensing.
Local installations are available for a variety of systems and
more are planned for the future:
The plain text data files used to build the Internet Movie
Database are available from our ftp sites as follows:
Please refer to the
copyright/license information listed in each file for
instructions on allowed usage. The data is NOT FREE
although it may be used for free in specific circumstances.
The files are compressed using GNUzip in order to save space
and network bandwidth. Once uncompressed many of them make
interesting reading and can be browsed using your prefered
editor/word processor. However, note that some of them are
huge (the actors section is 140Mb) so think carefully before
blindly downloading everything.
The Unix Command Line Search Programs
Col Needham's package of Unix command line programs
can be installed on your machine. The package was written
under Linux the free PC Unix but runs on a wide variety of
Unix systems. You'll need between 250Mb and 1Gb of local disk
space and an ANSI C compiler to install the package:
The package offers a simple command line interface to the
database with a wide variety of searches and combinations
available. A graphical X11 front-end known as xregal
is available for use with the above package. It provides an
offline hyperlinked interface with many features:
Alternatively, an interactive text front-end for the Unix
package, including automatic name/title completion is
available:
A LaTeX pretty printer for the interface is also available:
Andre Bernhardt's interface provides an easy to use local
graphical front-end to the database. It's available from
AmiNet and also on the IMDb ftp sites:
Steffen Siebert's Alternative Movie Database package (AMD)
provides both a graphical and command line interface to the
IMDb for OS/2 and is available via ftp:
John Baker's Credits
program is an IMDb interface for Acorn
computers which uses the same database files as the Unix
package and is available from:
The non-graphical command line version of Steffen Siebert's
Alternative Movie Database package (AMD) is also available
for Windows 95/NT/98 machines:
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