Semantic Web and Linked Data - Exercise 4

Internet Movie Database API

In this exercise we will build a HTTP API for an IMDB generated CSV file.

Exercises

1. Run imdb.js and test out the API as it is.

2. Add a GET method at the route '/movie/year/:year' that responds with the JSON for the list of all moves from the year ':year'.

3. Add a GET method at the route '/movie/random' that will return a random movie from the list.

4. Add a query parameter called nomovies, so that when a user goes to the URL 'http://127.0.0.1/movie/random?nomovies=i', where i is an integer, the API will return a list of i random movies. That is, 'http://127.0.0.1/movie/random?nomovies=10' will return a list of ten random movies.

Advanced exercises

1. Add a route that lets an API user search for movies with a given term in the movie title. For instance, a user could go to the route '/movie/search/the' and would be returned a list of movies with the word 'the' in the title.

Note

• The dataset came from this source. There is a description of the fields available there.

• You might need the Express Routing Documentation.

• You might also need the Express req.query Documentation.