Inspired by a post in the Cast/Crew Edit 2 thread, I started to look for AI APIs that would allow me too look up IMDb entries. ChatGPT said it could, but the API wouldn't be free. Well, for a freeware program that is a no-no, in my opinion. So I turned to Microsoft Copilot. It said that it couldn't provide IMDb data via the API. I didn't bother to check if the API was free. Finally I asked Gemini if it could do it. It said that it could, and that there was a free API (with some limitations).

That sounded promising, so I did some initial testing, and it worked.  I instructed Gemini that I wanted all cast and crew, and I wanted the credits exactly as in IMDb. On closer testing I found that Gemini failed in both aspects. Running the same movie multiple times would produce different number of credits, and slight variation of roles and crew jobs - not as credited. I tried changing the prompt to impress the criteria on Gemini, but that didn't help. That isn't good enough.

So, at least for now, this idea has been shot down.  Disappointing, because I was really hoping to be able to mine IMDb data without having to resort to screen scraping. So I guess it's still either Cast/Crew Edit 2, or being content with TMDB data using TmdbInfo.