On Mar 19, Michael Liu <mikel...@gmail.com> wrote: > So in short, if i understand it all correctly, the IMDB has in > their own database: the real IMDB id, whether something is adult, > whether something is on Amazon/Blockbuster.
More or less: the imdbIDs are used only on the site, and amazon/blockbuster information are not in the plain text data files. If a movie is for mature viewers, you can guess it searching "Adult" in their genre, and this can be done in 'sql', too (in fact, using the do_adult_search method you can exclude adult movies from your movie searches - if you already have a Movie instance, all you need is a simple 'Adult' in movie.get('genres') chech) > However, none of this is shared by them, and the only way to get any > of them is to use a script to do a title search and scrape the pages? You don't need to write it: IMDbPY already does everything you need. Just use something like: from imdb import IMDb ia = IMDb('http') # or 'mobile' for a faster but less complete parser. ... here you do your searches and you fetch movies, persons, ... In the example above, the movieIDs you'll use will be _the_ imdbIDs; no need to mention that now you're NOT accessing your local database. :-) There can be a little mess if you start mixing information from the web with info from the sql database, but that's all. Oh, by the way, information about products on Amazon can also be found in 'sales' and 'dvd' info sets, I think (see README.package, section 'INFORMATION SETS') and maybe other pages, I don't recall for sure. Bye, -- Davide Alberani <davide.alber...@gmail.com> [GPG KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://www.mimante.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-help mailing list Imdbpy-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-help