This is especially the case for Sunday editions and whatever moments occur around festivals and award ceremonies. And while the Times already offers a streamlined way to consume its movie-related content via RSS, it’s been far less easy to step far back in time for the 84 years the Times has issued reviews. Until now, anyway. This week the company debuted its very own Movie Reviews API.
More than 22,000 titles are said to be accessible through the API, and not only are recent articles and pieces done on classic pictures on hand, the methods for searching, pulling, and organizing such material are many. You can go by DVD release date, for example, or you can focus on particular actors, directors, reviewers names and other keywords.
According to Justin Sheckler, writing on the company’s Open blog, all facets are had through the Times Movies search feature. Furthermore, Sheckler notes that the API will be refined and extended to include more search parameters as well for things like publication dates and so forth. So if you want an experience akin to something that IMDB search or some other top-notch engine might give you, you’ll soon be able to make that happen.