A tool that let's you search the IMDB database for a movie, and get details for the closest match. This is a clean and simple to use tool, that works by scraping the IMDB website for details about the required movie.
IMDB doesn't have an official API that allows searching its database. Additionally, all the other tools availible are either paid or work only for javascript. I encountered these problems while I tried to make a movie search tool (with data from IMDB), and therefore, descided to make a web scrapper for IMDB instead.
The API at this moment is designed to only get data for a movie. It does so by scraping the web and finding the required data.
It consists of two major classes with some public methods that provide access to the functionality provided by this tool
Represents an IMDB object that allows scraping the IMDB site in two ways
1). By The Movie name: Use the IMBD constructor with the movie name as frst parameter and true as the second paramter, this allows the tool to search IMDB for closest matching mocie pages and set up the readers to actually start scraping the page.
2). By IMDB URL: If you have the URL of the page, you can use the IMDB constructor with first parameter as the URL and second paramter as false, to setup the reader to start extracting the page.
The Movie class represents a Movie object that stores the details about the movie you searched for. A movie has the following components:
1). Title: The name of the movie.
2). Description: Plot summary for the movie.
3). Release Date: When the movie was released.
4). IMDB URL: IMDB address of the page corresponding to the movie.
5). Runtime: Duration of the movie in Minutes.
6). Director: Name of the director for the movie.
7). Rating: How good the movie was on a scale of 1.0 to 10.0.
8). Genres: A list of all the genres that the movie falls under.
9). Actors: A list of people who were in the movie (some not all at times).
10). Keywords: A list of keywords that match the movie search.
This class provided the main functionality, the methods include,
1). isMove(): Checks if the current page is a movie.
2). getMovie(): Gives back a movie object with all the required data.
3). getURL(): Gets the current page's URL.
4). getExtractedMovie(): Just a security method, which lets you get the movie object again without scraping the web again.
Calling this method before the getMovie() will return an object with all null fields with an exception of URL field.
5). nextSearch(): Moves the reader to the next IMDB page found in the search for the movie name. In case of search by URL this return false always.
This class can neither be instantiated outside the API, nor can its data be manipulated once set. The only options availible are for fetching the components of a movie. This is a security feature.