# Plex API querying IMDB ID
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-api-querying-imdb-id/325955
**Category:** Dev/API Corner
**Created:** [October 31, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-api-querying-imdb-id/325955 "2018-10-31T16:23:18Z")
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### Author:  [@guy165101](https://forums.plex.tv/u/guy165101)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-api-querying-imdb-id/325955/1 "2018-10-31T16:23:18Z")
Hello working on making an automated way to grab new movies not in my Plex Movie server. Ran into an issue, when querying the API, I was able to get IMDB info now after an upgrade, and prob misc other changes I don’t seem to be able to get that data anymore?
Here was a screen shot of what I see:
I have also changed the movie agent back to ‘Plex movie’ instead of ‘the movie database’.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I have also queried the DB, looking for something different and its the same as well.
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### Author:  [@mcqweb](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mcqweb)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-api-querying-imdb-id/325955/2 "2018-10-31T16:32:40Z")
You could always try and get it from OMDB API based on title and year
It’s another call, but I was doing something similar to identify missing movies from any collections I had
```auto
` res= requests.get("http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey="+OMDBAPI+"&type=movie&r=xml&t="+title+"&y="+str(year))
IMDBResponse = BeautifulSoup(res.text,"html.parser")
IMDBMovie = IMDBResponse.select_one('movie')
IMDBRating = ""
#metaRating = ""
imdbID = IMDBMovie.get("imdbid")
```
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### Author:  [@guy165101](https://forums.plex.tv/u/guy165101)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2018, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-api-querying-imdb-id/325955/3 "2018-10-31T16:37:26Z")
Great suggestion man! I thought about that as well, but they only give a 1k free away a day. I have 1300ish movies.
I might switch to this, if there isn’t another way.
Thanks for your help.
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### Author:  [@mcqweb](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mcqweb)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-api-querying-imdb-id/325955/4 "2018-10-31T16:40:41Z")
Perhaps store the IMDB IDs locally once you’ve grabbed them and query that going forwards (or start it off at 11:55pm) 😉
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### Author:  [@guy165101](https://forums.plex.tv/u/guy165101)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-api-querying-imdb-id/325955/5 "2018-10-31T16:51:53Z")
Now were talkin 😉
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### Author:  [@guy165101](https://forums.plex.tv/u/guy165101)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-api-querying-imdb-id/325955/6 "2018-11-01T13:39:59Z")
Changed the agent to ‘plex movie’ instead of TheMoviedatabase, and see the IMDB information again. This does require you to delete, and re-import the library stuff FYI…
Feel free to close.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-api-querying-imdb-id/325955/7 "2019-01-30T13:43:15Z")
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