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TMDb-async-client

About

TMDb-async-client is a native Scala SDK that provides asynchronous access to The Movie Database (TMDb) API.
It is built heavily on akka-http for async non-blocking HTTP I/O and spray-json for parsing JSON responses into Scala case classes.
akka-stream is used to allow limitation of client request frequency and number of parallel requests in respect of TMDb policies.

TMDb-async-client is an EDLA project.

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API Key

You will need an API key to The Movie Database to access the API. To obtain a key, follow these steps:

Register for and verify an account.
Log into your account
Select the API section on left side of your account page.
Click on the link to generate a new API key and follow the instructions.

Usage

See Usage.scala for a runnable example.

Each function returns a Future of the response from the TMDb API, parsed into a convenient case class.

  val apiKey = "REPLACE_THIS_WITH_YOUR_OWN_API_KEY"

  val tmdbClient = TmdbClient(apiKey)

  val movie = tmdbClient.getMovie(54181)

  val movies = tmdbClient.searchMovie("shark")

  tmdbClient.downloadPoster(movie, Paths.get("/tmp/poster.jpg"))

  tmdbClient.shutdown

Developers

API Key need to be available as an environment variable named apiKey if you want to run sbt test

Related Projects

JavaFX client for TMDb (The Movie Database)