| CI IMDb Library |
[eluser]nevercraft[/eluser]
I'm working on a site using CI right now that interfaces with IMDb.com to retrieve information about movies. I have tweaked an excellent class called IMDBPHP to work as a CI library. I thought I'd share it in case it would be useful for someone else. CI IMDb Library It uses Pear's HTTP_Request package or another PHP class called browseremulator (included in the zip) to connect to IMDb.com and scrape information. Pages can also be cached to speed up lookups. Using the ID from IMDb.com, you can retrieve any info about a particular movie (run time, date, cast, directors, plot, etc). You can also use the library to search IMDb for these IDs based on a movie title. The code was fairly well documented, and there is an API reference available on the IMDBPHP site. A quick note - IMDb changes their layout semi-regularly and this can sometimes cause pieces of the script to break. You should keep an eye on the IMDBPHP home page as the maintainers are usually pretty good with posting updates to fix such issues. Enjoy! |
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CI IMDb Library - by El Forum - 02-02-2008, 11:31 PM
CI IMDb Library - by El Forum - 02-03-2008, 02:45 AM
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CI IMDb Library - by El Forum - 03-24-2008, 04:12 PM
CI IMDb Library - by El Forum - 03-25-2008, 01:30 AM
CI IMDb Library - by El Forum - 03-25-2008, 10:58 AM
CI IMDb Library - by El Forum - 05-25-2008, 03:13 PM
CI IMDb Library - by El Forum - 05-27-2008, 09:12 AM
CI IMDb Library - by El Forum - 06-03-2008, 05:10 AM
CI IMDb Library - by El Forum - 06-03-2008, 08:55 AM
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