This tool makes a best guess at what popular movies are based on a series of heuristics from multiple websites. This then returns a list of movies with their posters and IMDB ID.

Popular movies are based on some general rules:

• Rating greater than the general sentiment of movies currently out
• Released less than a year ago
• At least 3 weeks old to generate a "stable" rating
• Does not consider tastes, categories or genres of movies

You can poll the following JSON file for a list of movies.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/popular-movies/movies.json

• This file is regenerated nightly so it is recommended that you only poll this file once per day
• It is recommended that you take a snapshot of this list and not remove based on the list no longer displaying a particular movie
• Subject to fair use; excessive usage will be rate limited

There are also several other variations of the main file:

If you're looking for historical files, you can amend a date to the main file like so:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/popular-movies/movies-20191202.json

This file is only available from December 2, 2019 onwards.

• Make sure you are running Node.js and a local instance of Redis

• If you want to run it locally you can clone this repository and add a .env file which includes the following lines

  TMDB_KEY=
  

  • https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api

• Then run npm test and you should see an output of movies showing on your console and the grade it's gotten

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