# MfGames Media: Getting information about a movie
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# USAGE: get-tmdb-json.sh *.mkv

## This attempts to download the TMDB information for a given file. If

## the file exists, it will not be downloaded. This assumes there is

## only a single period in the filename.

## Go through the input files.

for file in “$@” do # Figure out the basename of the file and relative directory path. dir=$(dirname “$file”) base=$(basename “$file” | sed 's@.\w*$@@')

```
echo "Processing: $base"

# First check to see if we need the JSON file.
json="$dir/$base.tmdb"

if [ ! -f "$json" ]
then
    # We need to download the file.
    echo "  Downloading TMDB JSON"

    # Try to get the TMDB ID for the file.
    tmdb_id=$(mfgames-tmdb id "$base")

    if [ "x$tmdb_id" != "x" ]
    then
        # Taking our time...
        echo "  Sleeping..."
        sleep 7

        # Download the file.
        echo "  TMDB ID: $tmdb_id"
        mfgames-tmdb json $tmdb_id "--output=$json"

        # Check to see if this appears to be an HTML file.
        if grep "<h1>" "$json" > /dev/null
        then
            echo "  File could not be downloaded"
            rm -f "$json"
        fi
    else
        echo "  Could not identify ID file"
    fi

    # Throttle slightly so TMDB doesn't hate us.
    echo "  Sleeping..."
    sleep 7
else
    # Just identify that we have the file already.
    echo "  TMDB JSON already downloaded: $json"
fi
```

done


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