Hi all,
Right now in Moovida we return synopsis information for individual
episodes only. This comes directly from TVDB.com
What I need to know, and this is not only for the current TV section in
the future, but also a plugin we are developing...
I need information on where we can get a TV Series overview. This is
available on TVDB.com, in
example: http://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=73739&lid=7
<http://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=73739&lid=7>
So for Lost in the linked example... near the top right it has a basic
summary explaining what the WHOLE thing is about. Can we get this out of
the API?
Is there other better sites out there that we can get this information
from?... it would be good if it was actually Season specific as well.
We can get some of this information out of another site http://tvrage.com
They seem to have pretty good community-edited data (with very strict
editorial policies, which is a good thing for these kind of things i
think). They seem to have a pretty liberal attitude about how you use
it, but that's just my opinion of course.
It has some decent API to search for show names and get a lot of info
about them. For example:
http://services.tvrage.com/feeds/full_search.php?show=LOST
Once you grab their show id through the search above, then you can use
it to get more info about the show, for example episodes:
http://services.tvrage.com/feeds/episode_list.php?sid=4284
They also provide more than decent synopsis for shows, like
http://tvrage.com/Lost but it doesn't look like you can get them via the
API, so there has to be some scraping involved.
Cheers,
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Ugo
