MDBList Data Plan
MDBList requests a day20 / 1,000
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Saga · research · updated Oct 8, 2026

MDBList Data Plan

Everything MDBList can add to Saga, measured against live responses, with the screens, filters and sorts each piece could become. Pick Build, Later or Skip on each idea. Your picks save here and Claude reads them when it builds the next piece. Build picks are tracked on #351; Later picks each have an issue under it.

200titles per request (batch endpoint)
1,000requests a day free; 10,000 on Basic (€1)
~20a day to keep every score fresh
9requests spent on this research
building in the Veggie Score PR now store recommended later worth it, not yet skip not worth the cost
How scores stay right

Veggie Score rules every sync follows

Each title remembers who set its score, so a later sync knows what it may change. One function applies these, in this order, on every pass.

  1. A patch is final. A score set by hand (or hidden by hand) is never touched by a sync.
  2. MDBList wins when it has a score. It's the freshest source and carries the review count.
  3. An empty answer never erases. If MDBList comes back without a score, the title keeps the one it had.
  4. Wikidata fills the gaps. Only titles with no MDBList score ever take Wikidata's Tomatometer (it filled The Matrix 83%, Interstellar 73%, Spider-Man: Homecoming 92%, Guardians 3 82%, Fantastic Four 86%).
  5. Shown only with 5+ reviews. A score from three early reviews swings wildly; a patch is always shown.
Research log

What was probed

RequestCostWhat it showed
GET /userfreeFree plan, 1,000 a day, resets 00:00 UTC. Checking the budget costs nothing.
POST /tmdb/movie · 23 films + keywords, reviews1Ten rating sources per title, Common Sense Media, awards text, keywords, user reviews.
POST /tmdb/show · 18 shows + keywords, reviews1Same shape plus seasons; Letterboxd is movies only; season RT scores were empty.
POST /tmdb/movie · 198 popular films1196 back in one request. RT 79%, audience 80%, IMDb 97%, Letterboxd 93%, Metacritic 78%, Common Sense 97%.
GET /movies/updates, /shows/updates2Over 100 changes a day each; paging it costs more than re-batching our own titles.
GET /tmdb/movie/:id?append=extra1Trivia (HTML) and recommendations. Single title only, no batch.
GET /tmdb/show/:id?append=episode_ratings1Free plan gets one average (Breaking Bad: 89 over 62 episodes); per-episode needs a paid plan.
GET /lists/top, /lists/:id/items2Fifty popular dynamic lists; a whole list (up to 1,000 titles, ranked, TMDB ids) in one request.

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