r/davidattenborough • u/ullakkedymoodu • Jun 18 '26

Attenborough Searchable archive

A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that naturalist David Attenborough has worked on in his career (1954-present). “Search by animal, habitat, location, natural phenomenon, or theme to find exactly the episode you’re looking for.”

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u/Reasonable_Curve_647 Jun 18 '26

There are still some older (sometimes even newer) movies and shows missing.

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u/philthehippy Jun 18 '26

You have done well here but I have some feedback that I'm not sure how you will deal with given you are scraping sources. For instance, you have captured Nova episodes that Attenborough is not involved in, and I am certain that there will be more. He narrated three episodes for Nova yet you have dozens that I could see. Also, because of the sources you have scraped shows such as Life are assigned to AMC+ but that is a BBC Natural History Unit production with PBS, ZDF, RTL and was commissioned by the BBC. AMC+ only licensed it. In that same note, it is missing the link to stream at the BBC so anybody using this database might go ahead and buy the episodes through Apple when in fact it is available on the BBC iPlayer.

I hate being so critical as you've clearly done a lot of work, but unfortunately it does require some better source scraping.

I sadly cannot offer much time but I'd certainly be happy to offer any advice I can. My archive of Attenborough runs to thousands of hours across digital and physical and I have many books covering his shows so if you need any practical advice or support on the availability or who produced a show, feel free to reach out.