[mythtv] [PATCH] IMDB search fix for MythVideo

[Tobias Luetke]

Tim Harvey wrote:

This is not first hand knowledge but doesn't IMDB offer their entire 
database for download (i think i remember hearing about 300 mb of data)

Wouldn't this sort of fix the problems with them changing their layout 
constantly ?



P.S: this is what google came up with http://www.imdb.com/interfaces

P.P.S: Amazon.com has really nice cover pictures in their dvd section ;)


> The attached patches fix the currently broken IMDB search in MythVideo's
> VideoManager against current CVS.  This broke sometime before 0.13
> apparently.
> 
> The problem (of course) was that IMDB changed their format again.  More
> than that, they started using redirects which my previous patch added
> support for, but the patch that used the support never made it into CVS.
> No worries, because now that every search redirects I found a bug in the
> redirect logic and have fixed it (hence the httpcomms patch for
> libmyth).  The patch to videomanager makes use of the redirect
> functionality in httpcomms (and I feel cleans up the code a little) plus
> handles the changes made to IMDB's information.  My original patch back
> a few months ago added some more intelligent ranking to the data,
> however I haven't patched that back in because I am thinking we can
> perhaps do the queries in a more abstracted way (see below).