Connecting to IMDB
Has any one done this before? It would seem to me that there should be a webservice but i can't find one. I am writing an application for personal use that would just show basic info from IMDB. ...
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Given an IMDB movie id, how do I programmatically get its poster image?
movie id tt0438097 can be found at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438097/ What's the url for its poster image? ...
How do you get a thumbnail of a movie using IMDbPy?
Using IMDbPy it is painfully easy to access movies from the IMDB site: import imdb access = imdb.IMDb() movie = access.get_movie(3242) # random ID print "title: %s year: %s" % (movie['title'], movie['year']) However I see no way to get the picture or thumbnail of the movie cover. Suggestions? ...
TDD for IMDB html scraper
I'm currently developing a TDD idmb html scraper which ill extract certain fields from the imdb webpage. Eg. Title, Synopsis,Cast etc in C++. I'm just wondering if i have done the TDD right , i have 2 classes the Parser Class & MatchPattern class. The parser class has like a loadfile function that loads the file into a string and then...
Where to start for my java program (Using the folder names to get info from IMDB)
I finished first year comp sci. And i want to spend some time working on the things they have taught us in the first year (lot of java and a bit of C)... Anyways as a project, i wanted to do something i need, and what i need is a program to run through my movie folder and get the ratings and some basic info from IMDB... I'm not sure w...
Which site supply movie information with API for free?
I need: movie title director cast story I cannot use IMDB. ...
Does IMDB provide an API?
I recently found a movie organizer application which fetches its data from the IMDB database? Does IMDB provide an API for this, or any third party APIs available? ...
Performance senario RAM Disk and In memory database(IMDB) ?
I was just wondering, we have in memory database(IMDB) and we also have a way to put the database in a RAM Disk. So which would be faster? You valuable comments and experiences ...
IMDB Grabber PHP
I am recieving an error: Notice: Undefined variable: content in C:\wamp\www\includes\imdbgrabber.php on line 17 When using this code: <?php //url $url = 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/'; //get the page content $imdb_content = get_data($url); //parse for product name $name = get_match('/<title>(.*)<\/title>/isU',$imdb_content);...
What movie website allows people to scrape it?
I've wanted to make a C# library to scrape movie information and return it to the application, but someone told me that it's against the TOS. RottenTomatoes seems to have no problems with it from what I've read on their licensing page, but I'm not quite sure. Where could I aquire movie information legally and without cost? It's for an ...
Remote images displaying only sometimes
Hello, I maintain a local intranet site that among other things, displays movie poster images from IMDB.com. Until recently, I simply had a perl script download the images I needed and save them to the local server. But that became a HUGE space-hog, so I thought I could simply point my site directly to IMDB servers, since my traffic i...
Dock an item on top of UITableView like imdb app on ipad?
Hi, I want to do something similar to the left UITableView on imdb app on ipad. Once you have selected an item, it will become the first item on the top and it will dock there. When you flick the list below, it will always be there. Anyone has any suggestion on how I can achieve that? ...
How would YOU compute IMDB movie rating?
I'm doing this only for learning purposes. I've no intentions of reversing the methods of IMDB. I asked myself I owned IMDB or similar website. How would I compute the movie rating? All I can think of is Weighted Average(which is nothing but Arithmetic Mean) For a movie data provided below computation would be (38591*10 + 27994*9...