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08-25-2013, 08:04 AM

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Hello,

I made an IMDb scraper library to get movie information for a project that i'm working on. And thought I would share it. A quick note, IMDB.com does not allow scraping their site... If this doesn't bother you(I didn't), then you can proceed.

Here are some of the main features:

*Diffrent scrape options to refine your results
*Includes a light mode to make searching faster
*Youtube trailer url in the final results, also has options available in the config
*More to follow...

Example code:
application/controller/search_controller.php

Code:
//Load the scraper library

$this->load->library('imdb');

//Check if the query is submitted

if(isset($this->input->post('query'))) {

    $query = $this->input->post('query'); //Put the query in a variable

    $data['moviedetails'] = $this->imdb->getMovieInfo($query); //Get the movie information

}

//Set the page title

$data['title'] = 'IMDb Search Page';

//Load the view and pass along the data

$this->load->view('search_view', $data);

application/views/search_view.php

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>

&lt;head&gt;

    &lt;title&gt;&lt;?php echo $title;>&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;body&gt;

    &lt;form method="post"&gt;

        &lt;input type="text" name="query"&gt;

        &lt;input type="submit" value="Search"&gt;

    &lt;/form&gt;

    <br>

    &lt;?php 

        if(isset($moviedetails)){

            foreach($moviedetails as $detail){

                echo '<pre>';

                print_r($detail);

                echo '/<pre>';

            } 

        } 

    ?&gt;

&lt;/body&gt;

If there any bugs, please report them. Thank you.
Also, if you have any ideas, suggestions etc, let me know and I'll try to incorparate them.

https://github.com/Tony0892/Codeigniter-IMDb-Scraper