IMDb offers a great deal of useful structured information for research. There're multiple ways to get small pieces of its database: • Download a subset of data from • Use API via,, or (and other languages) • Use subsets from current papers on IMDb and its visualizations, eg this. • Get a license from IMDb to use API more intensively: $15K+. • Wandora • (But not by grabbing IMDb pages, which is not allowed by IMDb.) But these ways prevent from reaching a deeper study of relations within the DB, for instance, for economic research. Say, random sampling of a fraction of the DB may miss important relations.

Is there a better way to get mass IMDb data for research purposes? Edirol Super Quartet 1.5 Free Download. Not sure if this would classify as a comment or an answer, but it's useful information nonethelss: So in reading this question I HAVE to point this out - ever heard of the paper?: Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov.

Online database dumps for the public. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). You can also download the complete database dump from Freebase. Wikipedia talk:Database download. The Internet Movie Database. I imagine that would take longer and put more of a load on the servers than an image dump. Software Downloads: Imdb Database Dump. Related: Imdb. And simple tool that helps you retrieve detailed movie information from Internet Movie Database.