movies.pub

movies.pub is a movie data server for the Fediverse. It provides ActivityPub objects for all the movies in Wikidata.

API

The service supports two main endpoints.

https://movies.pub/movie/{q-item}

Given the Q-ID of a film on Wikidata, provides the data for the movie in Activity Streams 2.0 format.

https://movies.pub/search/movie?q={search-term}&lng={language}

Search for films in Wikidata, using the name in search-term.

Usage

The most typical usage would be in a View activity.


      {
        "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
        "id": "https://social.example/user/evanp/view/396",
        "type": "View",
        "actor": "https://social.example/user/evanp",
        "object": {
          "id": "https://movies.pub/movie/Q17738",
          "type": "Video",
          "nameMap": {
            "en": "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope"
          }
        }
      }

Code

Code is at https://github.com/social-web-foundation/movies.pub/.

Contact

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