Deep metadata, every page
Not just the first 250 rows. Zoom Out paginates through the entire list and extracts nine fields per title, cleanly structured.
Free & open-source Chrome extension
Every list deserves the big screen.
Zoom Out captures any public IMDb list as clean, structured data you can copy or export anywhere — then steps back and projects it as a full-screen, backdrop-driven cinema of everything you want to watch. Now with keyword scraping, credits & cast breakdown, and local AI clustering across your library.
How it works
Paste a link. Own the list.
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Capture
Paste any public IMDB list URL. Zoom Out fetches every page — title, year, rating, votes, genre, runtime, and plot for each entry — and saves it to your local library.
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Export
Copy or download the whole list as CSV, JSON, Markdown, or plain text — ready for a spreadsheet, a document, or an AI chat. One click, your format.
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Project
Hit Immersive and the list becomes a full-screen slideshow of posters and backdrops — sortable, filterable, and playable like a private trailer reel.
Features
Small extension. Wide angle.
Four export formats
CSV with injection guarding, stable-schema JSON, paste-ready Markdown tables, and readable plain text. Copy to clipboard or download.
A library that stays yours
Save lists, refresh them on demand, and back up or restore the whole collection as a single JSON file. Everything lives in your browser.
Full-screen cinema player
Backdrop-driven slideshow with poster, overview, rating, and genres — streaming in as images resolve, so you never wait on the whole list.
Filters built from your data
Sort, type, genre, keyword, and runtime pills are generated from the list itself — a short-runtime TV list gets sensible buckets, not movie-length ones.
Encrypted at rest
Your TMDB key is sealed with AES-256-GCM behind a passphrase — PBKDF2-SHA256, 310,000 iterations. The plaintext is never persisted.
IMDb keyword scraping
Scrape every keyword IMDb has for every title — batch-saved with live progress, cancel, resume. Keywords survive list refreshes and power filters.
Local AI clustering
Embed your scraped keywords with a local Ollama model, then explore a semantically sorted map of meaning — select clusters and launch them straight into cinema.
Credits & cast breakdown
Scrape directors, writers, producers, and actors across titles. Explore ranked leaderboards, headshots from TMDB, and library filmographies.
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Immersive mode
Step back. Watch it all.
One keypress turns a spreadsheet of titles into a wall of cinema. Posters and high-resolution backdrops stream in live from TMDB while you browse, shuffle, and filter — including by keywords — without ever leaving the player.
NOW SHOWING · FROM YOUR LIST
Interstellar
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Clips, one key away
Press G on any title for a full-screen reel of its own high-resolution backdrops — prefetched, looping, never repeating the frame you came from.
Instant navigation
Backdrops and posters for upcoming titles are decoded ahead of time — ahead, behind, and the next shuffled picks — so every arrow press lands instantly.
Never a black frame
Missing image? You get a clean titled placeholder, not a void. Rejected API key? A clear message, not a silent slideshow of nothing.
Cast & Crew Analysis
Know who's behind every title.
Zoom Out parses full IMDb credits for Directors, Writers, Producers, and Cast — aggregating your library to reveal your most-watched directors, favorite actors, and recurring creative talent.
Ranked leaderboards
Explore frequency-ranked lists of directors, actors, writers, and producers across your individual lists or entire library.
Christopher Nolan 8 titles
Denis Villeneuve 5 titles
TMDB headshots
Headshots retrieved live via TMDB API with clickable breakdowns of matching titles in your local collection.
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Cillian Murphy Actor
HZ
Hans Zimmer Composer
Exportable JSON
Export your aggregated credits database as JSON from Preferences or the standalone page for external reporting.
credits_export.json
Save
credits_export.csv
Copy
Private by design
Your lists never leave your browser.
Zoom Out has no backend, no analytics, and no account. The extension talks to
exactly two places — imdb.com to read public lists and
themoviedb.org for artwork — and its Content Security Policy
forbids everything else.
- All list data lives in
chrome.storage.local - TMDB key encrypted with AES-256-GCM + your passphrase
- Decrypted key held in session memory only, cleared on close
- AI embeddings run locally via Ollama — never sent to a cloud
- Open source, MIT licensed — read every line
Installation
Rolling in under a minute.
Zoom Out loads as an unpacked extension — no store account needed, nothing to sign up for.
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Get the code
Clone the repository, or download the ZIP and extract it anywhere.
git clone https://github.com/Ns81000/imdb-list-injector.git
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Open Chrome's extensions page
Type this into the address bar and press Enter.
chrome://extensions
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Enable Developer mode
Flip the Developer mode toggle in the top-right corner of the extensions page.
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Load unpacked
Click Load unpacked and select the repository folder. Zoom Out appears in your toolbar — pin it, and you're done.
Unlock immersive mode optional
- Grab a free API key from TMDB → Settings → API — a v3 key or v4 read token both work.
- In Zoom Out, open Settings (gear icon) → TMDB API Key.
- Paste the key, choose a passphrase, and save. It's verified, encrypted, and stored locally.
Enable AI clustering optional
- Install Ollama and launch it.
- Pull the embedding model:
ollama pull qwen3-embedding:0.6b - Scrape keywords for your lists, then click the AI Clustering icon in the extension header.
Updating later
- Pull the latest changes:
git pull. - On
chrome://extensions, hit the ↻ refresh icon on the Zoom Out card. - Your library, settings, keywords, embeddings, and encrypted key all stay intact.