/r/MovieGuide
Hi, I'm /u/MovieGuide. About MovieGuide.
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Hi, I'm /u/MovieGuide. About MovieGuide.
Send a message to this subreddit to contact my operator.
/r/MovieGuide
I retired /u/MovieGuide today, just after its 8th cake day. This has been a long time coming, sadly. IMDb stopped publishing updated database files in 2017, though I allowed MovieGuide to continue to run on the old database (probably for too long).
MovieGuide was a surprisingly complex project. None of the unofficial IMDb APIs that were available at the time had good fuzzy matching capability, so I had to implement my own clever search algorithm to support the wide variety of title variations and misspellings present in reddit post titles. Accomplishing this accuracy -- and doing it with minimal CPU usage -- was a really interesting challenge.
The code remains open-source, in case anyone ever wants to take a look: https://github.com/nandhp/movieguide https://github.com/nandhp/python-imdb