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Public API Project

I dig movies, so I chose the OMDB (Open Movie Database) to show off my API skills.

Here are a few of my favorites and a search option so you can check out a few of your own.

What is your favorite movie?

As Good as it Gets
The big Lebowski
Wonder Boys
Joe Versus the Volcano
The Big Year
Uncorked
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Doors
The Shawshank Redemption
Inglourious Basterds
Catch Me If You Can
Anonymous
Birds of America
The Professional

Project Note

When I was working on this project on my local machine, I had all the movie posters loaded via IMDB URL, so even the search option returned an image of the poster of your favorite movie. However, once I loaded the project to GitHub, this no longer worked. Come to find out, this is called hotlinking and it eats bandwith, so my requests to IMDB for the jpgs were met with a 302 error - FORBIDDEN. Now all images are embedded. Bummer. It felt cooler the other way. : )