[mythtv] Re:[PATCH] IMDB search fix for MythVideo

[Tim Harvey]

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> On Behalf Of Shawn Asmussen
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 9:59 AM
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> Subject: [mythtv] Re:[PATCH] IMDB search fix for MythVideo
> 
> 
> >If these queries are abstracted into scripts it could be much easier
to
> >make them pluggable to offer different types of searches, or
different
> >data sources, and make them updatable by a broader group of people.
I'm
> >thinking perl would be nice but my perl is very rusty. There must be
a
> >nice perl library out there for doing http requests?
> 
> There is a perl library for about everything these days. Including one
for
> interfacing with IMDB.
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~jeffa/IMDB-Movie-0.12/Movie.pm
> 
> If something were based off of that, then as long as the IMDB::Movie
perl
> module is maintained, then all you'd have to do is keep the newest
version
> of that module installed whenever IMDB changes their format. The IMDB
> module is pretty straightforward. The most difficult part of writing
that
> script would probably be deciding how to interface it with mythvideo.

Cool!  I took a quick look at this and I 'think' its going to have
similar vulnerabilities and I'm not sure it would serve all our
purposes.  However if it ends up providing a more robust service for
some of our needs, I'll be sure to make use of it.  Before I do any more
work on it, I'm still waiting for feedback on the patch I submitted
which abstracts the videomanager's queries to external scripts:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Dev_F10/%5BPATCH%5D_ab
stract_IMDB_queries_into_external_scripts_P102244/

Tim

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> Shawn Asmussen
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