[mythtv] imdb.pl

Anduin Withers awithers at anduin.com
Tue Feb 20 01:01:00 UTC 2007


> its worked for me for pretty much the last 6 months without any problems.
> 
> you may find the search/parsing routines of use, specifically
> search_imdb_online(), imdb_scalar_parser(),imdb_list_parser() and
> get_imdb_movie_online() routines.

That code is going to need the same updates, it is searching relative to <b>
tags, imdb.pl did something similar (though without a tag parser). Many of
those <b> tags are now <h5>.

Most imdb.pl alternatives have their drawbacks. IMDBPy is huge, others have
more exotic perl dependencies.

-- 
Anduin Withers



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