On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Cody Fuller <cody.ful...@live.com> wrote:
>
>>>> ia.search_movie('21')
> []
>>>> ia.search_movie('22')
> [<Movie id:0830515[http] title:_Quantum of Solace (2008)_>, <Movie
> id:0134847[ht
> tp] title:_Pitch Black (2000)_>, <Movie id:0074937[http] title:_Murder by
> Death
>
> Am I using this incorrectly or is this a bug?It seems to be a bug related to handling of queries that return too much results. Adding loggingLevel='debug' to the arguments of imdb.IMDb(), you get the following: 2012-09-09 16:15:32,677 DEBUG [imdbpy] /home/da/hg/imdbpy/imdbpy/imdb/_logging.py:45: set logging threshold to "DEBUG" 2012-09-09 16:15:32,722 DEBUG [imdbpy.parser.http] /home/da/hg/imdbpy/imdbpy/imdb/parser/http/__init__.py:442: fetching url http://akas.imdb.com/find?q=21&s=tt&mx=20 (size: -1) 2012-09-09 16:15:34,247 DEBUG [imdbpy.parser.http] /home/da/hg/imdbpy/imdbpy/imdb/parser/http/__init__.py:442: fetching url http://akas.imdb.com/find?q=21&ls=tt&lm=0 (size: 141312) [] Meaning that it does the "normal" query (q=21&s=tt&mx=20) but in the result page the "Your search returned more than" string is found, meaning that the query was too generic (at least some time ago, no results were shown at all, in this page). So, IMDbPY tries again with q=21&ls=tt&lm=0 limiting the data received on the connection (using the Range http header to avoid the download of a multi-megabytes page, just to show the first X results). Now... why parsing the fetched page results in an empty list? Increasing the fetched bytes seems to fix it *sometimes*... I guess it has something to do with the truncated html that we get, but so far I was unable to fix it adding tags to make i better... Hmmm... ideas? :-P Maybe we can just use the results of the first fetched page, if it always have results in it, now... -- Davide Alberani <davide.alber...@gmail.com> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://www.mimante.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-help mailing list Imdbpy-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-help
