RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer — pull request #2589 by sjlu (2013-12-08 16:33:07+00:00)
Title: Adding in a new source for automation.

I've created a tool which tries to automatically create a list of movies that were popular and in theaters (at least in the US). I found that a lot of the current sources add in a lot of junk that I wish not to have and weren't curated enough.

It will lookup lists from TMDb and RT for their "in-theater" movies and then use TMDb, RT and IMDb for their popularity ratings and sheer volume of ratings. With the given data, we try to determine if a movie is popular by assuming that movie has received more ratings because of their publicity.

It's data is cached every 24 hours and is synced to an S3 bucket for distribution (I got a lot of AWS credits from hackathons).

I have tested this in my own copy of CP.