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module FilmBuff
  class IMDb
    attr_accessor :locale

    include HTTParty
    include HTTParty::Icebox
    cache :store => 'memory', :timeout => 120

    base_uri 'app.imdb.com'
    format :json

    def initialize
      @locale = "en_US"
    end

    public
    def find_by_id(imdb_id)
      result = self.class.get('/title/maindetails', :query => {
        :tconst => imdb_id, :locale => @locale
      }).parsed_response
      Title.new(result["data"])
    end

    def find_by_title(title)
      result = self.class.get('http://www.imdb.com/xml/find', :query => {
        :q => title,
        :json => '1',
        :tt => 'on'
      }).parsed_response

      %w(title_popular title_exact title_approx title_substring).each do |key|
        if result[key]
          result[key].each do |row|
            next unless row['id'] && row['title'] && row['description']

            return self.find_by_id(row['id'])
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

Version data entries

1 entries across 1 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
filmbuff-0.1.6	lib/filmbuff/imdb.rb