IMDB Laravel

Imports IMDB's public movie title, genre, and rating datasets into your Laravel app's database, with migrations, Eloquent models, and artisan commands.

Installation

composer require kadegray/imdb-laravel
php artisan migrate

Import

Downloads title.basics.tsv.gz and title.ratings.tsv.gz from datasets.imdbws.com and imports movies (titles, genres, and ratings) into the imdb_titles and imdb_genres tables. Non-movie titles and adult content are skipped.

php artisan imdb:import

Options:

• --fresh — re-download the source files even if already present.
• --limit=N — only process the first N data rows of each file (useful for local testing instead of waiting on the full ~11M-row dataset).
• --only=titles|ratings — run just the titles or just the ratings step.

Dump

Backs up the imdb_* MySQL tables to database/imdb-data-backups/. Requires a MySQL connection.

php artisan imdb:dump

If a mysqldump/mariadb-dump binary is found (checking $PATH and common Homebrew keg-only install locations), it's used for the dump. Otherwise, imdb:dump automatically falls back to a built-in, dependency-free PHP dump — no CLI tools required, just a slower dump for very large tables.