getting movie/tv metadata?

[avx]

I'm searching for some tools/scripts, able to pull all sorts of metadata off the web. So far, I only found addon scripts for xbmc or mythtv, in turn relying on there APIs or internal structures, but I want something to be run stand-alone.

I need to query for data for tv-shows (mostly US, UK or DE) and movies. Good stuff out there?
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[eccerr0r]

What is the data source that you're expecting to get the metadata from?

I would think that most networks have their own custom format and you'd be stuck having to write a custom scraper for each site, at the whims that the television network does not change the format or links.

I suspect some aggregator like schedulesdirect may do some scraping to get data, but I figure they'd more likely do it like TVGuide and pay each network to grab the data and put it together...

or is this even what you're looking for? hmm....
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What the heck am I advocating?

[avx]

Well, for general purpose, I'd say IMDb and thetvdb would be good enough, at least for the english content I've got.

For movies, I'm interested in: title, release year, actors, plot, cover
For tvshows, it's: title, first aired, plot

(more data's always welcome of course)

I thought there may be some ready to use apps out there already, but I couldn't find any, yet. What I found is this, gotta see how far it can help me with my shows: https://github.com/dbr/tvdb_api
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[dwbowyer]

schedulesdirect doesn't scrape data. They are a collaborative group that licences the data from zap2-it. While there is no stand alone app that I know of, you can pay for membership (quite cheap) and Mythtv and one or two other projects recommend this means of obtaining TV data for individual users. As I understand it, other projects can make use of the data too. Since what OP is doing seems to be a custom project, I suggest going to their site and finding out if they can make use of this data source. The database information is meant to be provided in manner that won't change as often as website pages might.

[dwbowyer]

Actually there is a list of programs that use the data from schedulesdirect.org. Some do seemto be standalone guides.

http://www.schedulesdirect.org/approvedsoftware