Cultural APIs have further diminished the boundaries between the world of technology and entertainment and education. Different types of entertainment have a significant portion of today’s humans. We all enjoy reading books, watching movies, or listening to the music we love. These cultural hobbies are a good time for us to get away from the concern of the world and immerse ourselves in the world that a talented writer or artist has created.
The taste of each of the 5 people is different about the type of entertainment; But all people have a number of books, movies or music. Some genre follow certain genres or enjoy seeing the works of a particular writer. For me many times to enjoy a film and look for other works by the author and director of the film; Or I want to read the views of others about it to understand the aspects of the story that was meaningless to me.
It is here that cultural APIs come to our aid. Cultural APIs provide us with information about cultural products from various sources. This information can include news about them, reviews, posters and cover, stakeholders and manufacturers, and so on.
Famous sites and media like the New York Times offer their own APIs that collect information about each product from their database. Although in many cases these APIs meet our needs, there are some other APIs that provide us with more complete information by collecting information from different databases.
If we have a sales and presentation of cultural products, reviews, or the publishing and distribution platform of these products, we would no doubt like our customers and audiences can find all the information they need on our site so that they do not have to search by searching On other sites, waste a lot of time. This way, customer concentration on the site will not be eliminated and the likelihood of product purchasing from our site increases.
In general, film and cinema APIs are the most popular APIs in the field of cultural products. Large sites like Rotten Tomatoes have their own development plan, designed to extract information from their database. To get the API of these sites you need to fill out the registration form and after reviewing your site, the API will be available. Some other sites, such as the IMDB, have no official APIs, but other developers have designed APIs for free site data.
Here are some of the best APIs in different cultural fields that have been used in many apps to date. You can also
