Movie_Api_Express

Create an Express application that incorporates a third party API, OMDB. [express, api]

We'll be creating an app that connects to the OMDB, a public movie API.

Installation:

$ npm install omdb

Getting Started

• Fork and clone this repository, which has a starter app provided for you.
• Run npm install to install dependencies
  • If installed, nodemon should start and refresh your app when changes are made
  • Use eslint if you'd like to lint your JS
    • npm run lint:js - lint your JS
    • Note that from here on out, the JS linter will automatically fix most issues with spacing, quotations, and semicolons. More information here
  • Use csslint if you'd like to lint your CSS
    • npm run lint:css - lint your CSS
• Read the API documentation.

User Stories

1. As a user, I want to go to a home page to search a database full of movies.
2. As a user, I want to see movie results based on my search query.
3. As a user, I want to pick a movie result and see detailed information about the movie.

Requirements

1. On your home page, create a form. The form will ask for the user to input a movie title.

• This form should have a GET method, with an action of /results
• Example result of submitting the form: sends browser to /results?q=star+wars&apikey=thewdb

2. Write your GET route for /results.

• Use req.query to access querystring parameters.
• Use the request module to make a request to the OMDB API with this data
• Send the data back to the browser. Use res.render and use an ejs template

3. From the search results page, we notice along with every movie entry there is a IMDBid. In the rendered HTML for /results, have each movie link to a route like /movies/tt234323 (where tt234323 is the IMDBid).

• Make a new route /movies/:movie_id
• Make an API call to retrieve movie details related to that movie_id

Tips

• The data object we get back in a request callback, is a string of the data. Use JSON.parse(data) to turn that data back into an object.

• The movie api returns an array of movies inside the Search Key.

• Example Search URL

• Example Movie Detail URL

• Make sure you call res.render inside the callback function of the request.

Bonusess

• Add stars images to reflect the imdb ratings
• Figure out what parameters are need to access the Rotten Tomato information, and display that information to the page
• Add the ability for users to add movies to a favorites list, and save that list as a JSON file

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Licensing

1. All content is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
2. All software code is licensed under GNU GPLv3. For commercial use or alternative licensing, please contact legal@ga.co.