DataSources.md

DATA SOURCES

Actor Data

List: Actors/Actresses Who Committed Suicide

• Wikipedia: Category: American actors who committed suicide
• Wikipedia: Category: American actresses who committed suicide

List: All Actors/Actresses

• Wikipedia: Category: American film actors
• Wikipedia: Category: American film actresses

Movie Data

• Overview: 52 Movie APIs
• The Movie Database (TMDb)
• The Open Movie Database (OMDb)
• AllMovie website
• The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

API Links

• Wikipedia: Local API (scraping allowed on individual pages)
  • Main help page
  • Query help
  • Category members help
  • Limits help
  • Format help: JSON version 2
  • Etiquette help
  • Performance guidelines
  • Note 1: Specifying titles through the query string (either through titles or pageids) is limited to 50 titles per query
• TMDb: Local API
• OMDb: Local API
• AllMovie website (scraping allowed)
• IMDb: AWS API

Python Packages

• Wikipedia: wikipedia-infobox-tool/get_data.py
• TMDb: tmdbsimple
• OMDb: omdb
• IMDb: IMDbPY (NOTE: Downlaod plain text data files from IMDb/AWS first)