Goal:
This project aims to provide a simple interface to the IMDB website. Orginaly designed to be the interface for a xml based web serice for IMDB. The webservice needs to be updated. This project is not to differnt from the few other ruby projects. We all scrap the website and parse the data. Since I use class names and relative node positions the class can break when IMDB changes the format of the website.
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High Plains Drifter (2007-07-07)
Office Space (2007-02-18)(Broken)
Dependencies:
Hpricot 0.5 or greater
Gem:
I hope to have a gem soon.
Web Call
XML
Why would I make a to_xml method and not use it? You can get the xml for a movie by calling stephenbeckeriv.com/movie/title_name
For example http://stephenbeckeriv.com/movie/office_space
If this is slow to return please forgive. There is no caching of data and the webserver is slow. I do not suggest using my site as the bases for your services. I will be glade to help configure, code, or answer questions if you want to set up your own service.
Tests
Run:
I have both functional and unit tests in the svn. Check out the code and run ruby test/unit/test_imdb.rb to see if Hpricot works correctly and ruby test/functional/test_office_space.rb to test the IMDB class.
Rcov:
I have checked in the rcov for the tests or you can view them here Functional and Unit.
Example:
require "imdb" ["scotland pa","MaLlRaTs","Doctor+Zhivago","blue_velvet","die hard"].each{|movie| puts movie movie=IMDB.new(movie) pp movie.actors pp movie.title pp movie.poster_link pp movie.rating pp movie.aka pp movie.also_known_as pp movie.aspect pp movie.aspect_ratio pp movie.awards pp movie.certification pp movie.certifications pp movie.certs pp movie.color pp movie.company pp movie.country pp movie.date pp movie.director pp movie.directors pp movie.genre pp movie.genres pp movie.imdb_link pp movie.keywords pp movie.language pp movie.mpaa pp movie.page_html pp movie.plot pp movie.plot_keywords pp movie.plot_outline pp movie.poster_link pp movie.rating pp movie.ratings pp movie.release_date pp movie.runtime pp movie.tagline pp movie.user_comments pp movie.writer pp movie.writers pp movie.title_search pp movie.to_xml sleep 30 }
