Movies API

Simple REST API interacting with omdbapi.

Deployed to AWS at http://ec2-18-157-179-26.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:3005

Getting your API key

Rename .env.template to .env and provide your API key.

You can get it for free at omdbapi.

How to run it

git clone [email protected]:zakrzk/rest-api-movies.git
cd rest-api-movies
docker-compose build
docker-compose up

Example queries via curl:

POST:

curl --location --request POST 'localhost:3005/movies' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"title":"Pulp Fiction","year": 1994}'

GET:

curl --location --request GET 'localhost:3005/movies'

Endpoints

POST /movies

Pass an object with a movie title and the release year in the request body:

{
    "title": "The Hateful Eight",
    "year": 2015
}

In a response, you'll find some more info about the movie:

{
    "id": "tt3460252",
    "title": "The Hateful Eight",
    "year": "2015",
    "director": "Quentin Tarantino",
    "runtime": "168 min",
    "country": "USA",
    "comments": []
}

GET /movies

Returns all movies present in the database:

[
           {
               "comments": [],
               "_id": "5f5b94dbcde89461c999f7af",
               "id": "tt3460252",
               "title": "The Hateful Eight",
               "year": 2015,
               "director": "Quentin Tarantino",
               "runtime": "168 min",
               "country": "USA",
               "__v": 0
           },
           {
               "comments": [],
               "_id": "5f5ba7928db14d0020bdbd5b",
               "id": "tt0110912",
               "title": "Pulp Fiction",
               "year": 1994,
               "director": "Quentin Tarantino",
               "runtime": "154 min",
               "country": "USA",
               "__v": 0
           }
       ]

POST /comments

Pass an object with a movie id and the comment in the request body:

{
    "movieId": "tt3460252",
    "movieComment": "Great soundtrack! 8/10"
}

Result:

{
    "movieId": "tt3460252",
    "movieComment": "Great soundtrack! 8/10"
}

GET /comments

Returns an object containing only movies with comments (only title and comments properties:

[
    {
        "comments": [
            "Great soundtrack! 8/10",
            "I didnt get the plot"
        ],
        "title": "The Hateful Eight"
    },
    {
        "comments": [
            "what was in the suitcase??"
        ],
        "title": "Pulp Fiction"
    }
]