in reply to IMDB Fetcher

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that it's possible to do this without fetching/parsing any data from www.imdb.com. For years the IMDB folks have provided all of their movie data free of charge. You can download the datafiles from ftp.imdb.org (They're updated about once a week). They also provide software for doing commandline searches (plus a GUI for windows users, but i've never tried it)

If you do more then a couple of searches a day, it's worth having.

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Re: Re: IMDB Fetcher
by beebware (Pilgrim) on Jan 27, 2002 at 01:46 UTC
    Problem is, is that IMDB now licence their data and charge for it (even though the prices aren't on the site).
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      I'm pretty sure they've allways charged to licence their data.

      If you're surfacing it on another site, I don't think t hey're going to care if you're using their tools, a Module from CPAN, or a homegrown perl script -- they're still going to want their licencing fee.

      But if you're doing queries for personal use, you might as well havea local copy of all the data instead of going across the pipe and parsing the HTML everytime.

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