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Embedding movie showtimes from google into a website/app


So I know this question is kind of vague, but I have done a ton of research and this is kind of my only option left.

For a course in my bachelor's degree, we're working with cordova. The entire grade is to make an app, using at least one API and plugin. I want to make an app that displays information about movies, using the TMDb and Open movie database API's. For movies that are in cinema's right now, I'd like to display the showtimes at a cinema.

I've found several cinema API's, but none of them are free, which means I can't use them. But I was thinking, if you type into google: "movie name" "cinema name" it displays the showtimes of that movie in one of those handy little cards, like this:

google movie showtime example

Now I'm wondering, is there any possible way I could maybe embed this into my app? Like, I'd be on the page of a certain movie, and then I'd have the user type in the name of a cinema, I'd look that up in google and then display one of these cards?

Or is the only possible way to do this to just open a browser? Which would of course be a lot less impressive looking.


Solution

  • I found something that might be of interest to you in another question:

    Is there a movie showtime api?