# Wrapping the API for themoviedb.org

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/wrapping-the-api-for-themoviedb-org/84281
**Category:** Web Stack
**Created:** [July 15, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/wrapping-the-api-for-themoviedb-org/84281 "2022-07-15T16:22:50Z")
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### Author: ![dmbates](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dmbates/32/44_2.png) [@dmbates](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dmbates)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/wrapping-the-api-for-themoviedb-org/84281/1 "2022-07-15T16:22:50Z")

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While looking at the [movielens.org](http://movielens.org) ml-25m data set (see [ml-25m - Downloading and examining the MovieLens 25m data](https://dmbates.github.io/ml-25mjl)) I encountered an online movie/tv-show database called [themoviedb.org](http://themoviedb.org) that provides a public API, [API Overview — The Movie Database (TMDB)](https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api)

There are implementations of wrappers around this API for several languages, [API Wrappers & Libraries — The Movie Database (TMDB)](https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api/wrappers-libraries). See, for example, the Python wrapper [GitHub - celiao/tmdbsimple: A wrapper for The Movie Database API v3.](https://github.com/celiao/tmdbsimple). I thought that I would try to create such an API wrapper for Julia. Has anyone done this already? I don’t have a lot of experience with web-based APIs so if someone else has already done something like this I would follow rather than trying to lead.

I was planning to call such a package `tmdb.jl` but then thought it might be better to call it by a longer name such as `themoviedb.jl`. Does the latter seem preferable in the spirit of not using acronyms or abbreviations that are not widely known?