Is there a movie showtime api?

when "allow_url_fopen" is disabled then use

    <?php
/**
 * Google Showtime grabber
 * 
 * This file will grab the last showtimes of theatres nearby your zipcode.
 * Please make the URL your own! You can also add parameters to this URL: 
 * &date=0|1|2|3 => today|1 day|2 days|etc.. 
 * &start=10 gets the second page etc...
 * 
 * Please download the latest version of simple_html_dom.php on sourceForge:
 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/files/
 * 
 * @author Bas van Dorst <info@basvandorst.nl>
 * @version 0.1 
 * @package GoogleShowtime
 *
 * @modifyed by stephen byrne <gold.mine.labs@gmail.com>
 * @GoldMinelabs.com 
 */

require_once('simple_html_dom.php');

$curl = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.google.ie/movies?near=dublin');  
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);  
$str = curl_exec($curl);  
curl_close($curl);  

$html = str_get_html($str);

print '<pre>';
foreach($html->find('#movie_results .theater') as $div) {
    // print theater and address info
    print "Theate:  ".$div->find('h2 a',0)->innertext."\n";
    //print "Address: ". $div->find('.info',0)->innertext."\n";

    // print all the movies with showtimes
    foreach($div->find('.movie') as $movie) {
        print "Movie:    ".$movie->find('.name a',0)->innertext.'<br />';
        print "Time:    ".$movie->find('.times',0)->innertext.'<br />';
    }
    print "\n\n";
}

// clean up memory
$html->clear();
?>

Don't know if Google exposes it as an api but this looks a lot like what you want. http://www.google.com/movies?hl=en&near=90210&dq=movie+times+90210&sa=X&oi=showtimes&ct=title&cd=1

sorry, should've searched a bit more before posting the question.

some creative searching on del.icio.us has revealed an undocumented yahoo! movies api (sample api call).

looks nice.

After looking around a little bit, I found Dapper (open.dapper.net) to be a great solution for creating this type of feed...

Here is the feed I made, which takes a movie title and a zip code as parameters. (most others available only searched by ZIP)

http://www.dapper.net/dapp-howto-use.php?dappName=GoogleMoviesbynameANDzip

took about 5 minutes to set up...

I too am looking for showtimes I can legitimately scrape and republish. Yahoo's sound like if you don't do it for commercial purposes, it's not prohibited... or maybe that's wishful thinking on my part.

You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion or use of, or access to, the Yahoo! Services

My guess is that your best bet on that (unless these guys have RSS feeds) would be to scrape the HTML with a language that supports regular expressions.

Mind you, that's ugly and every time they change their code, yours -could- break.

I can't find one.

You could try screen-scraping from Yahoo Movies: http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?z=60630&date=20090113&mid=1810038822

z    = zip code
date = year + month + day (as a string)
mid  = movieID, which you will have to grab from Yahoo Movies

I was also looking for a showtime API, and like you, I have not found a good API for the movie showtimes. I decided to write my own "showtime API", based on the Google Showtimes. Please check it out.

It is a simple PHP-script, but "it does what it should do":

    <?php
/**
 * Google Showtime grabber
 * 
 * This file will grab the last showtimes of theatres nearby your zipcode.
 * Please make the URL your own! You can also add parameters to this URL: 
 * &date=0|1|2|3 => today|1 day|2 days|etc.. 
 * 
 * Please download the latest version of simple_html_dom.php on sourceForge:
 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/files/
 * 
 * @author Bas van Dorst <info@basvandorst.nl>
 * @version 0.1 
 * @package GoogleShowtime
 */

require_once('simple_html_dom.phps');

$html = new simple_html_dom();
$html->load_file('http://www.google.nl/movies?mid=&hl=en&near=1400AB');

print '<pre>';
foreach($html->find('#movie_results .theater') as $div) {
    // print theater and address info
    print "Theate:  ".$div->find('h2 a',0)->innertext."\n";
    print "Address: ". $div->find('.info',0)->innertext."\n";

    // print all the movies with showtimes
    foreach($div->find('.movie') as $movie) {
        print "\tMovie:    ".$movie->find('.name a',0)->innertext.'<br />';
        print "\tTime:    ".$movie->find('.times',0)->innertext.'<br />';
    }
    print "\n\n";
}

// clean up memory
$html->clear();

?> 

Example: http:// code.basvd.nl/showtime_grabber_0.1/Google_showtime.php

Download simple_html_dom.php: http:// code.basvd.nl/showtime_grabber_0.1/

http://www.google.com/ig/api?movies=YOUR_ZIP_HERE

Thanks to Nick. that's the link I will be using.