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TMDb

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Sync TMDb data anywhere.

TMDb is a community built movie and TV database. The Movie Database (TMDb) is a well known, popular, user editable database for movies and TV shows. TMDb.org, which is a crowd-sourced movie information database used by many film-related consoles, sites and apps, like XBMC, Myth TV and Plex. The Movie Database (TMDb) is a database of TV shows and movies which permits users to edit data. Since 2008, the users have been editing and adding the data through TMDb.

  • Standard
  • Alpha
  • 33 streams
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TMDb

One connector

Everything TMDb can do in Airbyte

  • Sync to your warehouse

    Land 33 TMDb tables in 50+ destinations on a schedule you control.

  • One authorization

    Authenticate TMDb once and Airbyte keeps every scheduled sync running on it.

  • Cloud or self-hosted

    Run the TMDb connector on Cloud, Self-Managed Enterprise.

Specifications

What to know before you sync TMDb

  • Support levelStandard
  • Available onCloud, Self-Managed Enterprise
  • Connector version1.1.57
  • Release stageAlpha

Sync capabilities

  • Full Refresh SyncSupported
  • Incremental SyncNot supported
  • NamespacesNot supported
  • Destinations50+ Airbyte connectors

Set up in 11 steps

  1. First, navigate to the TMDb website and create an account if you haven't already done so.
  2. Once you have an account, log in and navigate to your account settings.
  3. In your account settings, click on the "API" tab.
  4. On the API page, click the "Generate new API key" button to create a new API key.
  5. Give your API key a name and select the appropriate permissions for your use case.
  6. Copy the API key that is generated.
  7. Navigate to Airbyte and click on "Sources" in the left-hand menu.
  8. Click the "New Source" button and select "TMDb" from the list of available connectors.
  9. Enter a name for your TMDb source and paste the API key you copied earlier into the "API Key" field.
  10. Click the "Test" button to ensure that your credentials are valid and that Airbyte can connect to your TMDb account.
  11. If the test is successful, click the "Create" button to save your TMDb source and begin syncing data.

33 streams

Every table you can sync from TMDb

  • Certification_movie

  • Certification_tv

  • Changes_movie

  • Changes_tv

  • Changes_person

  • Movies_alternative_titles

  • Movies_changes

  • Movies_credits

  • Movies_details

  • Movies_external_ids

  • Movies_images

  • Movies_keywords

  • Movies_latest

  • Movies_lists

  • Movies_now_playing

  • Movies_popular

  • Movies_recommentations

  • Movies_releases_dates

  • Movies_reviews

  • Movies_similar_movies

  • Movies_top_rated

  • Movies_translations

  • Movies_upcoming

  • Movies_videos

  • Movies_watch_providers

  • Trending

  • Search_collections

  • Search_companies

  • Search_keywords

  • Search_movies

  • Search_multi

  • Search_people

  • Search_tv_shows

Authentication

Authenticate TMDb once

  • Unique key for establishing connection

    API Key from tmdb account

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ETL, an acronym for Extract, Transform, Load, is a vital data integration process. It involves extracting data from diverse sources, transforming it into a usable format, and loading it into a database, data warehouse or data lake. This process enables meaningful data analysis, enhancing business intelligence.

The TMDb (The Movie Database) API provides access to a wide range of data related to movies and TV shows. The following are the categories of data that can be accessed through the TMDb API:

- Movie data: This includes information about movies such as title, release date, runtime, budget, revenue, genres, production companies, and more.
- TV show data: This includes information about TV shows such as title, air date, episode count, season count, networks, genres, and more.
- People data: This includes information about people involved in movies and TV shows such as actors, directors, writers, and producers.
- Keyword data: This includes information about keywords associated with movies and TV shows such as plot keywords, genres, and more.
- Collection data: This includes information about collections of movies such as franchises, trilogies, and more.
- Review data: This includes information about reviews of movies and TV shows such as user ratings and reviews.
- Image data: This includes images related to movies and TV shows such as posters, backdrops, and stills.

1. First, navigate to the TMDb website and create an account if you haven't already done so.
2. Once you have an account, log in and navigate to your account settings.
3. In your account settings, click on the "API" tab.
4. On the API page, click the "Generate new API key" button to create a new API key.
5. Give your API key a name and select the appropriate permissions for your use case.
6. Copy the API key that is generated.
7. Navigate to Airbyte and click on "Sources" in the left-hand menu.
8. Click the "New Source" button and select "TMDb" from the list of available connectors.
9. Enter a name for your TMDb source and paste the API key you copied earlier into the "API Key" field.
10. Click the "Test" button to ensure that your credentials are valid and that Airbyte can connect to your TMDb account.
11. If the test is successful, click the "Create" button to save your TMDb source and begin syncing data.

The most prominent ETL tools to transfer data to include: Airbyte, Fivetran, StitchData, Matillion, Talend Data Integration. These tools help in extracting data from various sources (APIs, databases, and more), transforming it efficiently, and loading it into and other databases, data warehouses and data lakes, enhancing data management capabilities.

ELT, standing for Extract, Load, Transform, is a modern take on the traditional ETL data integration process. In ELT, data is first extracted from various sources, loaded directly into a data warehouse, and then transformed. This approach enhances data processing speed, analytical flexibility and autonomy.

ETL and ELT are critical data integration strategies with key differences. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) transforms data before loading, ideal for structured data. In contrast, ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) loads data before transformation, perfect for processing large, diverse data sets in modern data warehouses. ELT is becoming the new standard as it offers a lot more flexibility and autonomy to data analysts.

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