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IMDB 'I Saw That' Hacks
I wrote a few PHP scripts to help me quickly figure out which of the Internet Movie Database's top 250 films I have seen.
Unfortunately, these don't seem to work from this web server for some reason.... the movie database forbids all of the requests.
Both the imdb-ask.php and the
imdb-show.php scripts take the
following optional arguments:
url- The IMDB url to retrieve. The default
is
http://www.imdb.com/top_250_films. seen- The url of the file in which the ids of the
movies you have seen are stored (one per line).
The default is
imdb.dat. skipSeen- Tells the script to ignore movies mentioned
in the
seenfile. skipUnseen- Tells the script to ignore movies which are
not mentioned in the
seenfile.
The first script
imdb-ask.php
pulls down a page from the movie database. It presents
me with a list of checkboxes for the films referenced on
that page. For each film, it pre-checks those films
which it knows I have already seen.
Here are some examples:
- The Top 250 Movies
- The Bottom 100 Movies
- Blade Runner connections
- A Blank View Of The Top 100 Movies
Once you submit that script, it will spew out a list of
movie identifiers. You should copy these into the file
imdb.dat. The
results are displayed by the script imdb-showquery.php
The last script imdb-show.php
pulls down a page from the movie database. It
presents the items in a simple list. One can
override all of the presentation by adding
parameters to query. It supports
preList and postList
for html to surround the list. It supposts
preEntry and
postEntry to go around the
entries. It supposts preSeen and
postSeen to go around the movies
in the seen file. And, it
supports nohref to indicate that
you don't want links to the movie database.
Here are some examples: