| 50 | Movie Recommendations |
The data provided by external services can give you a jumping-off point to create your own application.
Write a program that displays information about a given movie. Prompt for a search query and display the title, year, rating, running time, and a synopsis, if one exists. Then, if the audience score is above 80%, recommend that the user watch this movie right now. If the score is below 50%, recommend that the user avoid the movie at all costs.
Example Output
| | Enter the name of a movie: Guardians of the Galaxy |
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| | Title: Guardians of the Galaxy |
| | Year: 2014 |
| | Rating: PG-13 |
| | Running Time: 121 minutes |
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| | Description: From Marvel... |
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| | You should watch this movie right now! |
Constraint
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Use the Rotten Tomatoes API at http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/ and obtain an API key.
Challenges
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Create a graphical version of the program. Display the movie poster image along with the rating information graphically.
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Investigate methods to cache the movie data you’ve collected so that you aren’t constantly hitting the external API. Provide a method to expire the cache.