Movie and TV Show Search
Search for movies or tv shows and get general info and ratings from various sites.
Features
Get movie/tv show runtime, genre, MPAA rating
Get ratings from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic (if available)
Show a link to a trailer (if available)
Show a few credits
Download
Get the workflow from Packal or GitHub.
Usage
Type 'movie' and the title you'd like to search for. Select item (ENTER) to get movie info.
Type 'tv' and the title you'd like to search for. Select item (ENTER) to get show info.
Thanks
Thanks to @deanishe for Alfred-Workflow.
Uses TMDb and OMDb APIs for info.
@vitor for all his help with developing a great workflow
Changelog
For more recent changes, see the GitHub releases page.
2.6 (2017-11-27)
Big thanks to @vitor for implementing the following enhancements:
- Add support for OneUpdater
- Move OMDb API key to workflow environment variables
2.2 (2015-05-01)
- Open YouTube trailer (if available) when choosing to search all rating sites
- Friendly message when internet connection isn't working properly
2.1 (2015-01-28)
- added menu item to search all rating sites at once
- added script behaviour queue delay (requires Alfred 2.6 or higher)
- fixed rotten tomatoes search
2.0 (2015-01-20)
- added tv show search
- fixed issue with quick look not working for some items
- removed tiny poster icon (didn't like the squishing and there was an issue with caching the icon in Alfred)
1.3 (2015-01-16)
- removed argparse reference (and setting personal TMDb API key functionality)
- updated alfred-workflow library to latest (v1.11.0)
- fix/tidy up string encoding issues
- error handling fixes
1.2 (2015-01-11)
- show tiny poster in movie details listing
- generate sexy html file for when first item in details listing is selected
- add fallback search item (must be added manually in Alfred preferences > Features > Default Results > Setup fallback results)
For whatever reason I couldn't get the existing Rotten Tomatoes Workflows to work so I wrote my own. Its pretty basic and has three main keywords:
"movies" to search for movies
"soon" movies coming out this month
"opening" movies opening this weekend
Too bad the Rotten Tomatoes API only shows coming soon movies for the current month. I tried to get the movies coming out for the next 3 months but they just don't expose an API for that purpose. Bummer.
You will need to setup a Rotten Tomatoes API Key so that the workflow will work properly. First get a API key from http://developer.rottentomatoes.com. Once you have the API key use the keyword "rottenkey" to set the API key.
This is my first published workflow so please let me know if you see any areas for improvement. Finally you can download the workflow from http://scottwalter.com/files/RottenTomatoes.alfredworkflow
