====== The Movie Database ======

** The Movie Database (TMDB)** is an editable database of films, and alternative to [[imdb]] with an apparently easier to use API, so is preferred by a site I use called [[letterboxd]].

===== Editing =====

==== Adding Videos from Vimeo ====
When adding a video to a film entry (for example a trailer), instead of adding the video's URL you add what they call a //video key//. For [[Youtube]] this is in the URL, so it's easy to find, but to find it for [[Vimeo]] you have to:

  - Click on the 'Share Video' button
  - Look through the code in the 'Embed' section, for example:
    * <code html><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/158111029" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/158111029">BLACK MAN&#039;S HOUSES</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/roninfilmsaustralia">Ronin Films</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></code>
  - Find the URL with the nine-digit sequence, and use the numbers from that:
    * ''https://vimeo.com/158111029''
    * ''158111029''

==== Creating A Collection ====

To create a collection you have to create an empty movie entry with the name you want, a description, and nothing else, then **convert** that to a collection via the 'Primary Facts' page.

The only way to remove an item from a collection is to ask a moderator.

When I first made a colelction there seemed t obe a whole bunch of films in there, but once I'd added one they dissapeared.

  * [[https://www.themoviedb.org/bible/new_content/59f792cd9251413e93000004#59f7933c9251413e93000009|§Collections]] in the TMDB Contribution Bible.
  * [[https://www.themoviedb.org/bible/collection]] - Yeah, there are two versions in the docs, iunno.

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