/ 
IMDB-Movie-0.02
/ IMDB::Movie

NAME

IMDB.pm - module to fetch movie info from www.imdb.com

DESCRIPTION

This is a module that uses LWP and HTML::TokeParser to parse the web page for the requested movie. You can use an IMDB identification number or the name of the movie. IMDB.pm will try to return the best match.

SYNOPSIS

  use strict;
  use IMDB::Movie;

  my $movie = IMDB::Movie->new('78748');
  print join("|",
    $movie->title, 
    $movie->id, 
    $movie->year, 
    join(';',@{$movie->director}),
    join(';',@{$movie->writer}),
    join(';',@{$movie->genre}),
	$movie->user_rating,
  ), "\n";

  sleep 5;

AUTHOR

Jeffrey Hayes Anderson <captvanhalen@yahoo.com>

DISCLAIMER

This module should be used VERY SPARSLEY. The good people at the Internet Movie Database provide access to their websites for free, and i do not want this module to be used in an irresponsible manor.

Also, screen-scraping a web site does not make for a long living application. Any changes to IMDB's design could potentially break this module. I give no garuantee that i will maintain this module, but i will garuantees that i may just delete this module with no notice.

COPYRIGHT

Module Copyright (c) 2003 Jeffrey Hayes Anderson.

Movie Data Copyright (c) 1990-2003 Internet Movie Database Inc.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.