Movie and TV Recommender - Part 1: the Gathering

Who has not spent a good part of their night or weekend scrolling through all their streaming services to decide of what to watch next? While every service has their own recommender, a struggle is to find cross-service recommendations, getting that whodunnit marathon right.

The first step for any data project is… data! So here comes “The Movie DataBase” (TMDb) project to the rescue. One of the best (if not the best) open-source project to gather movie and TV shows data. And the best part is that it has an extensive API, with basically all its capabilties available. If you like APIs, you should definitely check it here.

In this script, I run through the API’s endpoints I forsaw using for a content recommender (most on this here and here) and save it to BigQuery.