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MovieGuide retired today, shortly after its 8th cake day.

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

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2020/12/31
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