ericduminil / imdb

Easy automated access to IMDB

imdb

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Description

The IMDB gem allows you to easy access publicly available data from IMDB.

Features

IMDB currently features the following:

• Search for movies and TV series
• Retrieve the Top 250 listing
• Retrieve complete movie information
• Retrieve TV series and episode information

Read the documentation to see all you can do with this gem.

Examples

Movies:

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

i.title
#=> "Die Hard"

i.cast_members.first
#=> "Bruce Willis"

Series:

serie = Imdb::Serie.new("1520211")

serie.title
#=> "\"The Walking Dead\""

serie.rating
#=> 8.8

serie.seasons.size
#=> 3

serie.season(1).episodes.size
#=> 6

series.season(1).episode(2).title
#=> "Guts"

Searching:

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

i.movies.size
#=> 97

Installation

gem install imdb

Or, if you're using this in a project with Bundler:

gem 'imdb', '~> 0.8'

Running Tests

As this gem uses content from imdb.com, the test suite uses a set of pre-defined fixute files in spec/fixtures. These fixtures are copies of imdb page used in tests.

Run bundle install to install all dependencies, including webmock, which will serve the fixture files instead of doing actual requests to imdb.com.

$ bundle install

Next, simple run rake to run the entire test suite.

Running against actual IMDB data

It's possible to run the test suite directly against imdb.com. This has two disadvantages:

1. Tests will be slow

2. Running tests often will probably get you into trouble, see Disclaimer.

   $ LIVE_TEST=true rake

If you want to run against actual imdb data, it's better to just update the fixture files once with up-to-date content:

$ rake fixtures:refresh

When you run the test suite now, it will use the updated fixture files.

Disclaimer

Neither I, nor any developer who contributed to this project, accept any kind of liability for your use of this library.

IMDB does not permit use of its data by third parties without their consent.

Using this library for anything other than limited personal use may result in an IP ban to the IMDB website.

This gem is not endorsed or affiliated with IMDB, or IMDb.com, Inc.

Contributors

This gem is created and maintained by Ariejan de Vroom, with help from lots of awesome contributors

License

See MIT-LICENSE