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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 1175535" data-attributes="member: 18896">IMDb has a perfect database. I can understand RottenTomatoes wanting to promote their system, but thousands of movies have an IMDb tt-ID reference, and a correct one as well. The problem with switching from the quick IMDb tt-ID lookup with RT is that I then have no guarantee that the movie is the correct one, because searching on title, director, year, etc leaves a lot of room for error. It is very easy to search on IMDb and get 100 movies with the same title, or dozens with same title in the same year. And what if IMDb uses 2015 as year, but RT uses 2016 then I would fail as well.I have an extensive amount of code to do the search like that with IMDb search engine, and that is the only time a user can confirm/correct it as well, after that I would have to rely on fuzzy results, which is the whole point of the API to search by a fixed known identifier such as IMDb tt-ID.PS: Do you have a list of the movies? If RT now decides to stop adding IMDb tt-ID on well known releases then it would indeed be a problem. Probably dealing with a lazy RT editor, which is why I do not understand they do not adapt to allow community contributions like IMDb does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 1175535, member: 18896"] IMDb has a perfect database. I can understand RottenTomatoes wanting to promote their system, but thousands of movies have an IMDb tt-ID reference, and a correct one as well. The problem with switching from the quick IMDb tt-ID lookup with RT is that I then have no guarantee that the movie is the correct one, because searching on title, director, year, etc leaves a lot of room for error. It is very easy to search on IMDb and get 100 movies with the same title, or dozens with same title in the same year. And what if IMDb uses 2015 as year, but RT uses 2016 then I would fail as well. I have an extensive amount of code to do the search like that with IMDb search engine, and that is the only time a user can confirm/correct it as well, after that I would have to rely on fuzzy results, which is the whole point of the API to search by a fixed known identifier such as IMDb tt-ID. PS: Do you have a list of the movies? If RT now decides to stop adding IMDb tt-ID on well known releases then it would indeed be a problem. Probably dealing with a lazy RT editor, which is why I do not understand they do not adapt to allow community contributions like IMDb does. [/QUOTE]

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