I\'m looking for a movie recommendation engine (most likely it will be a webapp)

Question

I'm looking for a movie recommendation engine (most likely it will be a webapp) with the ability to automatically import my preferences, which consists of hundreds of existing scores of movies, too many to enter one by one. E. g. I have text file:

Shawshank Redemption 9/10
The Godfather 7/10
... hundreds of lines

Supported import formats (txt, csv, xls) are not important: I can convert my scores locally.

I'm looking for an existing engine with a large enough user database so that the engine can give useful recommendations.

That is ridiculous, but I really don't know about any engine with such useful feature, except KinoPoisk.ru, from which I want to export scores :)

Explanation / Answer

Here's IMdb importer, implemented in PHP. I did not test this, it might be outdated already; last updated 9 months ago (May 2013). I have been happy with IMdb recommendations, but you might have different experience. If you are not, after importing ratings to IMdb, you can easily import those to iCheckmovies (related blog post).

Data format for IMdb importer is really simple: JSON with list of dictionaries, containing vote and titles. Using only titles instead of title+release year pairs will obviously cause at least some problems, unless you only watched movies that does not have older releases.

I checked out the source code; it's relatively well documented and well written, so updating or fixing it should be easy.

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