Spotlite

Spotlite is a ruby gem to retrieve movie information from IMDb.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'spotlite'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install spotlite

> require 'spotlite'
# Access movie directly by its IMDb ID
> movie = Spotlite::Movie.new('0133093')
# Or use search instead
> list = Spotlite::Movie.find('the matrix')
> movie = list.first
> movie.title
=> "The Matrix"
> movie.runtime
=> 136
> movie.genres
=> ["Action", "Sci-Fi"]
> movie.countries
=> [{:code=>"us", :name=>"USA"}, {:code=>"au", :name=>"Australia"}]
> movie.directors
=> [#<Spotlite::Person:0x007f96a092be70 @imdb_id="0905152", @name="Andy Wachowski", @url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0905152/", @credits_category="Directed by", @credits_text="(as The Wachowski Brothers)">, #<Spotlite::Person:0x007f96a092bda8 @imdb_id="0905154", @name="Lana Wachowski", @url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0905154/", @credits_category="Directed by", @credits_text="(as The Wachowski Brothers)">]
> movie.cast[0..2]
=> [#<Spotlite::Person:0x007f96a19521a0 @imdb_id="0000206", @name="Keanu Reeves", @url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000206/", @credits_category="Cast", @credits_text="Neo">, #<Spotlite::Person:0x007f96a1951c28 @imdb_id="0000401", @name="Laurence Fishburne", @url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000401/", @credits_category="Cast", @credits_text="Morpheus">, #<Spotlite::Person:0x007f96a1951a70 @imdb_id="0005251", @name="Carrie-Anne Moss", @url="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005251/", @credits_category="Cast", @credits_text="Trinity">]

Movie titles will be localized if movie has an alternative title specific to your country. Example: The Great Gatsby (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343092) has an alternative title Gatsby le magnifique France (imdb display title) and will be localized accordingly based on your IP address, if you reside in France. Non-localized title is still avaliable with original_title method. Sorry, there is nothing I can do about it at the moment.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Write code
4. Test it (rake or rake spec)
5. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
6. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
7. Create new Pull Request

Spotlite uses RSpec as a test framework. So, first make sure you have it installed

$ gem install rspec

Run the tests

$ rake

Spotlite uses gem FakeWeb in order to stub out HTTP responses from IMDb. These stubs are located in spec/fixtures directory.

Install FakeWeb gem:

$ gem install fakeweb

If you want to make a new feature that uses data from a page which is not stubbed out yet:

$ cd spotlite
$ curl -isH "Accept-Language: en-us" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt[IMDB_ID]/ > spec/fixtures/tt[IMDB_ID]/index

or, for example:

$ curl -isH "Accept-Language: en-us" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt[IMDB_ID]/fullcredits > spec/fixtures/tt[IMDB_ID]/fullcredits

You get the idea. And don't forget to add corresponding line to IMDB_SAMPLES hash in spec/spec_helper.rb file.

Sometimes IMDb makes changes to its HTML layout. When this happens, Spotlite will not return expected data, or more likely, methods will return nil or empty arrays. First, run tests with LIVE_TEST=true environment variable:

$ LIVE_TEST=true rake

Adjust methods that are failing, according to the new layout. And refresh fixtures:

$ rake refresh_fixtures

It will run through all elements of IMDB_SAMPLES hash to get fresh data.

Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Artem Pakk

MIT License

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