How To Create a Movie Database in Obsidian

Subscribe to my monthly newsletter: https://fromsergio.substack.com Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Why Bother? 01:16 - Requirements 03:04 - Template 05:50 - Dataview 08:14 - Further Customization The guide for what we are going over: https://minimal.guide/Guides/Create+a+movie+database Buy Stephan a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kepano Find Stephan at: Twitter: https://twitter.com/kepano Github: https://github.com/kepano OMDb API key : https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx Chhoumann's movies.js script - https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd/blob/master/docs/docs/Examples/Attachments/movies.js My movie template: poster: {{VALUE:Poster}} imdbId: {{VALUE:imdbID}} scoreImdb: {{VALUE:imdbRating}} length: {{VALUE:Runtime}} genre: {{VALUE:Genre}} year: {{VALUE:Year}} cast: {{VALUE:Actors}} director: {{VALUE:Director}} rating: status: plot:: {{VALUE:Plot}} File name format: {{VALUE:fileName}} Stephans Dataview query ``dataview table without id ("![](" + poster + ")") as Poster, file.link as Title, string(year) as Year, "by " + director as Director, "⭐ " + scoreImdb as "⭐ IMDB", rating from #movies where poster != null ``` My dataview query: ``` table without id ("![](" + poster + ")") as Poster, file.link as Title, year as Year, director as Director, "⭐ " + scoreImdb as "⭐ IMDB", rating, genre from "movies" where contains(status, "complete") ` 🎵 Where I Get My Music - https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/ayxzl5/ 🎥 My Camera Gear - https://kit.co/fromsergio Some of the above are affiliate links which means I get a small commission at no extra cost to you, which helps support the channel.