[mfu95]

A feature that I truly love from The Movie DB is right at the bottom of most movie pages, called :

If you enjoyed (...), you might also like...

IMDB also offers a similar feature :

People who liked this also liked...

Of the two, I prefer TMDB because it offers more matches

I really wish Kodi would offer me something similar

[Razze]

I think there are skins, that offer this.

[enen92]

I believe extendedinfo script includes something similar?

edit:
See example for steve jobs movie

[RockerC]

+1 for scraping related/similar media and post recommendations for "Similar TV shows" / "Similar movies" / "Similar artists" based on your library content and ratings of the similar media.

Also see these related dicussion threads:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=219357
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=210707

Or are you actually asking for to have a recommendation engine inside Kodi itself so that Kodi could recommend similar movies and tv shows without having to go online each time?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system

If so maybe Smart(ish) Widgets discussion here:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=210707

Smart(ish) Widgets does unfortuantly not actually take into account users habits/ratings or recommend similar media in the users library that they may be interested in playing

From IMDb - No. The api simply isn't good enough (and essentially non-existent for tv series.)

From TMDb - some can already be enabled from the scripts settings ('Similar' and 'Keywords') - oh, and TMDb's Similar is only good for those to series where it has this information, which is primarily only US to shows

From others - I'm already looking into Trakt, and will look into others BUT this is a content-based recommendation system, not a collaborative one. That means it bases its results on the media metadata (genre, actors, et al), not similar movies that others have enjoyed. Whilst such information can be used, it's hard to weight names of similar shows, against multiple genres, actors, etc, so any additional info will only be added if it genuinely improves the results.

Would it not be better to make the scraping part be done by Kodi's existing scrapers, so that they scrape just the IMDb and TheMovieDB tags for "recommendations" and "similar" movies into Kodi's standard video database, meaning at the same time when they do their normal scraping for all the movie metadata via the available APIs?

That way not only this widget could use the information but other python apps as well or skinners could even use that information directly from their skins without having to use widgets, or?

That is, would it not be simpler if the data for "similar" movies was always available in Kodi's video database?

So for example for the entry of Pulp Fiction, which have IMDb tag tt0110912 it would have a new additional table that also stores the ID tags of "similar" and "recommended" movies from IMDb, again see:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/recommendations

So for the Pulp Fiction entry in the database that entry would have a child table that stored the IMDb id tags of those recommendations from imdb.com

tt0910936
tt0317248
tt0407887
tt0985694
tt0105236
tt0105236
tt0172156
tt0086148
tt0375912
tt0375912
tt0120784

That way you can with just that IMDb ID tag then do a SQL lookup in the Kodi video database to see if it have any of those movies in your database, and if do have them all it would recommend these as similar movies:

Pineapple Express (2008)
City of God (2002)
The Departed (2006)
Machete (2010)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Bad Boys II (2003)
The Professional: Golgo 13 (1983)
Layer Cake (2004)
Scarface (1983)
Payback (1999/I)


Of course since you might not have all those movies in your database it would be nice it the scrapers also collected this information from other sources too, like TheMovieDB.org and the others I mentioned.

Again http://www.similarkind.com and http://www.tastekid.com are possible two more good sources for other types of media such as TV Shows and music artists.

[Hitcher]

I added this to fTV using ExtendedInfo script -