imdb¶ ↑

The code, issue tracker and wiki can be found at:

• github.com/ariejan/imdb

This packages allows you to easy access publicly available data from IMDB.

IMDB currently features the following:

• Querying details movie info

• Searching for movies

• Command-line utility included.

Movies:

i = Imdb::Movie.new("0095016")

i.title
#=> "Die Hard"
i.cast_member.first
#=> "Bruce Willis"

Searching:

i = Imdb::Search.new("Star Trek")

i.movies.size
#=> 97

Using the command line utility is quite easy:

$ imdb Star Trek

or to get movie info

$ imdb 0095016

All required gems are installed automagically through RubyGems.

• Hpricot 0.8.1

$ sudo gem install imdb -s http://gemcutter.org

You’ll need rspec and fakeweb installed to run the specs. Y

$ gem install rspec fakeweb
$ rake spec

Although not recommended, you may run the specs against the live imdb.com website. This will make a lot of calls to imdb.com, use it wisely.

$ LIVE_TEST=true rake spec

To update the packaged fixtures files with actual imdb.com samples, use the fixtures:refresh rake task

$ rake fixtures:refresh

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2009 Ariejan de Vroom

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