IMDB Parser: Extract movie information from IMDB site pages

IMDB_Parser - parsing imdb.com site

Thu Feb 21 13:52:41 CET 2008
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* Intro

This class parse Information like title, language, genre of a 
video-detail-site from the internet movie database http://www.imdb.com.

* Usage

first you must fetched a imdb.com-detail-site, see the examples:
$imdb_website = file_get_contents ('http://imdb.com/title/tt0138704/');

Include the class.imdb_parser.php:
require("classes/class.imdb_parser.php");

Create a new instance of the class:
$IMDB_Parser = new IMDB_Parser;

* Methods

$IMDB_Parser->getMoviePictureHtml($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieTitle($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieTagline($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMoviePlot($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieActors($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieActors($imdb_website, $name_and_id=True)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieRating($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieLanguage($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieColor($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieCountry($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieDirectedBy($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMoviePicture($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieGenres($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieYear($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieRuntime($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieStars($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieAka($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieVotes($imdb_website)
$IMDB_Parser->getMovieAwards($imdb_website)

* SVN

Check out the newest release through SVN server.
svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/imdb-parser/trunk imdb-parser

* Contact

Feel free to report any problems, comments or whatever.

* Thanks

to berlios.de for hosting the project.
Guvenc kaplan, Erik aka D3FiANC3, Edward Husar and all the other contributers & bugreporters.