Build a Movie Info App in Javascript and Boostrap Using OMDb API

Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be building a movie info app in javascript and bootstrap using omdb api in browser. All the full source code of the application is shown below.

Get Started

In order to get started you need to create the api key from the dashboard. For this you will require the email address as shown below

Now we need to make an index.html file and copy paste the following code

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Movie Info App</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="container">
      <h1>Movie Info App</h1>
      <form>
        <div class="form-group">
          <label for="movieTitle">Movie Title:</label>
          <input type="text" class="form-control" id="movieTitle" placeholder="Enter movie title">
        </div>
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" id="submitBtn">Submit</button>
      </form>
      <div id="movieInfo"></div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Movie Info App</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Movie Info App</h1>

<form>

<label for="movieTitle">Movie Title:</label>

</div>

<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" id="submitBtn">Submit</button>

</form>

</div>

</body>

</html>

As you can see we have included the javascript css and js cdn and also we are including the jquery cdn as well. And then we have the simple html5 form to search the movie name and then we have the submit button. And then we have the div section to display the movie details. Now we need to write the javascript code as shown below

script.js

 // Get user input
      var submitBtn = document.getElementById("submitBtn");
      submitBtn.addEventListener("click", function() {
        var movieTitle = document.getElementById("movieTitle").value;
        // Make API call
        var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhr.open("GET", "http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY&t=" + movieTitle, true);
        xhr.onload = function() {
          if (xhr.status === 200) {
            var movieData = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
            // Display movie information
            var movieInfo = document.getElementById("movieInfo");
            movieInfo.innerHTML = "<h2>" + movieData.Title + "</h2>";
            movieInfo.innerHTML += "<img src='" + movieData.Poster + "'>";
            movieInfo.innerHTML += "<p>Released: " + movieData.Released + "</p>";
            movieInfo.innerHTML += "<p>Director: " + movieData.Director + "</p>";
            movieInfo.innerHTML += "<p>Plot: " + movieData.Plot + "</p>";
          }
        }
        xhr.send();
      });

// Get user input

var submitBtn = document.getElementById("submitBtn");

submitBtn.addEventListener("click", function() {

var movieTitle = document.getElementById("movieTitle").value;

// Make API call

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

xhr.open("GET", "http://www.omdbapi.com/?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY&t=" + movieTitle, true);

xhr.onload = function() {

if (xhr.status === 200) {

var movieData = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);

// Display movie information

var movieInfo = document.getElementById("movieInfo");

movieInfo.innerHTML = "<h2>" + movieData.Title + "</h2>";

movieInfo.innerHTML += "<img src='" + movieData.Poster + "'>";

movieInfo.innerHTML += "<p>Released: " + movieData.Released + "</p>";

movieInfo.innerHTML += "<p>Director: " + movieData.Director + "</p>";

movieInfo.innerHTML += "<p>Plot: " + movieData.Plot + "</p>";

}

xhr.send();

});

As you can see we are making a simple call to the OMDb API using ajax. And then we are printing the movie details inside the div section as shown below