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

[Shawn Asmussen]

>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.

Shawn Asmussen