MovieDB Widget connects your WordPress site to a self-hosted MovieDB (Nanitalk) instance and renders a rich information widget for movies and TV series directly inside your posts.
Features:
- Search movies and TV series from the post editor sidebar.
- Insert a widget as the post’s main title, or drop multiple
[moviedb_widget]shortcodes for list-style articles. - Auto-insert the widget after a chosen paragraph, after the content, or shortcode-only.
- Per-country watch-provider data (configurable default country).
- Server-side caching via the WordPress Transient API (12-hour TTL).
- Optional outbound webhook that notifies your MovieDB instance when a linked article is published, unpublished, or trashed (signed with HMAC-SHA256).
The plugin works out of the box against the default MovieDB instance (https://moviedb.nanitalk.com). Advanced users can point it at their own self-hosted MovieDB instance under the settings page.
External services
This plugin connects to a third-party / self-hosted MovieDB instance that you configure under Settings → MovieDB Widget. Nothing is sent until you enter a Base URL.
It connects to the configured MovieDB instance (e.g. https://moviedb.nanitalk.com) to:
- Search titles — when you type in the editor search box, the search term is sent to
GET {base_url}/api/search. - Fetch widget data — when rendering a widget, the title ID, country code and variant are sent to
GET {base_url}/api/widgets/title/{id}. - Report article links (webhook) — when a post linked to a title is published, unpublished, or trashed, the site name, post ID, post URL, title ID and status are sent to
POST {base_url}/api/integrations/wordpress/article-link, signed with a shared HMAC-SHA256 secret.
Widget responses may include image URLs served from https://image.tmdb.org and https://images.justwatch.com, which are loaded by the visitor’s browser.
Because the MovieDB instance is configured by the site owner, the data sent and any applicable terms or privacy policy depend on that deployment. The reference instance is available at https://moviedb.nanitalk.com