The Java Movie Database (JMDB) is a Java program which stores the data from the IMDb Text files
(Internet Movie Database - http://www.imdb.com/) in several MySQL/PosgreSQL tables.
After you have imported the data, you can search for actors, movies, producers and actors. About the movies and people some details several details are shown. For more details look at the JMDB-Homepage!
We recommend an update to the recent beta version, because changes made to the IMDb data (since end of January 2006) are supported by this version (you can remove episode from the tv show from search results) and the amount of main memory used to import the data is also higher than before the IMDb changes (the -Xmx parameter in the start scripts has been updated).
The new version also allows to use PostgreSQL (NEW) and MySQL.
We are also still looking for volunteers that want to translate the program to other languages.
Please contact us via eMail (see website).
http://www.jmdb.de/
More details can be found on the homepage:
http://www.jmdb.de/
ERRONEOUS DATA:
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Currently there are several errors in the IMDb data files, that have been introduced with the recent IMDb change to include episodes of tv shows.
I've corrected those entries (Title from movies and release dates of episodes) and forwarded them to the IMDb List-Keepers, but it takes time until they get submitted. I hope they will be included with the next update.
Because of those errors you can't import the release-dates.list(.gz) if you use PostgreSQL as long as the data is not corrected, because there will be a lot of errors generated by PostgreSQL.
If you want to import it anyway you need to correct the data manually. First you need to extract the release-dates.list.gz. Then you need to edit the release-dates.list file with a texteditor and correct the following dates (4 entries only - one date is used two times).
The following years do not have a 29th February...so you need to replace the 29 with a 28:
29 February 1997
29 February 1955
29 February 1954
Juergen Ulbts
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