Lightweight intelligent desktop movie ranking program!
Moviecat uses a binary search version of insertion sort to insert movies into your personal movie list. The program will ask you a series of direct comparison questions where you must compare the movie to another movie in your personal list. After a set amount of questions the program will insert that movie into the found position in your movie list. An example of this in operation is below.
This program will organically build a ranking of every movie you've seen without the requirement for scales. You are freed from having to rate movies on arbitrary scales, like 0-10, or out of 5 stars, or the number of times you'd rather watch Casablanca as compared to each movie. Things like that.
Moviecat should compile just fine without any dependencies, although if you want
to actually run it you'll need sqlite. Make sure you also run git submodule update
in order to make sure you've downloaded the zip wrapper code.
Upon first startup moviecat will download imdb datasets from https://datasets.imdbws.com.
It will download title.basics.tsv.gz, title.crew.tsv.gz and name.basics.tsv.gz
When self-updating, moviecat will redownload the datasets to update its internal
database. By default this happens if the last update happened more than 4 weeks
ago, but this option can be changed in the app.
To compile moviecat run the following:
nim c -d:ssl src/moviecat.nim
Note the change from previous (< 0.4.0) versions with the addition of the -d:ssl
flag. This is necessary for moviecat to download the imdb datasets.
For a quicker, but potentially more unstable version you can turn on the -d:release or
-d:danger flags. Release binaries are compiled using -d:release.
moviecat requires Nim >= 1.4.2 as it requires db_sqlite procs that were not added until that version.
I have chosen to rank Lady Bird (2017) among a few random classics, since I thought of this program while watching Lady Bird.
What would you like to do?
rank lady bird
Found these movies:
[0] (tt0163050) The Legend of a Lady Bird, 1997
[1] (tt1442194) A Life: The Story of Lady Bird Johnson, 1992
[2] (tt4925292) Lady Bird, 2017
[3] (tt7713508) The Stalker of Lady Bird Lake Part IV: A Location Scouting Film, 2017
Which movie did you want?
2
You have selected (tt4925292) Lady Bird, 2017
Is (tt4925292) Lady Bird, 2017 > (tt0087469) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984?
yes
Is (tt4925292) Lady Bird, 2017 > (tt0062622) 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968?
yes
Is (tt4925292) Lady Bird, 2017 > (tt0088763) Back to the Future, 1985?
no
What date did you watch this movie? (YYYY-MM-DD)
Input "N" to skip.
2020-06-27
Inserting at rank 2
What would you like to do?
print
[1] (tt0088763) Back to the Future, 1985
[2] (tt4925292) Lady Bird, 2017 (Watched on 2020-06-27)
[3] (tt0062622) 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
[4] (tt0082971) Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 (Watched on 2020-05-04)
[5] (tt0087469) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1984 (Watched on 2020-05-05)
[6] (tt0099088) Back to the Future Part III, 1990
[7] (tt0096874) Back to the Future Part II, 1989