• Bechedel test json fields

  • 7349 movies passed the test from year 1984, 5776 from year 2000, still way too much, 3k from 2010
  • take the most recent 500? (ask Q for a good number)

  // sample object
  {    
      "id": 376,
      "year": 1984,
      "title": "Ghostbusters",
      "imdbid": "0087332",
      "rating": 2
    }
  

• feed imdbid into iMbd api with fetch(... ?i=tt'imdbid'...)

  • get

  Release Year
  Rating
  Release Date
  Runtime
  Genre(s)
  Director(s)
  Writer(s)
  Actor(s)
  Plot Summary
  Language(s)
  Country/Countries
  Awards Won
  Movie posters (URL of film image)
  Ratings received
  Metascore
  IMDb Rating
  IMDb Votes
  IMDb ID
  Type (movie, series, or episode)
  DVD info
  Box Office results
  Production company
  Website(s)
  

• Test saving to json file with API call
• Need to save all responses from imbdapi to a json file that we can play around with

• get director + actors

// pseudocode for data parsing

directors = {}; // each entry contains {name: ..., movies: [], ratings: 0};
actors = {}; // each entry contains {name: ..., movies: []};
for (var i = 0; i < movies.length; i ++){
	let director = API_call_get_director_form_movie(movie);
	directors[director] += 1;
	directors[director].movies.push(movie);
	directors[director].rating += rating; // divide by numMovies for avg rating
	mainCast = API_call_get_cast(movie);
	for (var j = 0; j < mainCast.length; j ++){ 
		actors[mainCast[j]] += 1;
		actors[mainCast[j]].movies.push(movie);
		// accumulate rating too 
  }
}

Problems

• problem with fetch time, the indices are not the same
  • need to have keys instead of using an array for json because of async API requests
  • index by search by id, slow but no need to mutate data