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module Imdb
# Search IMDB for a title
class Search < MovieList
attr_reader :query
# Initialize a new IMDB search with the specified query
#
# search = Imdb::Search.new("Star Trek")
#
# Imdb::Search is lazy loading, meaning that unless you access the +movies+
# attribute, no query is made to IMDB.com.
#
def initialize(query)
@query = query
end
# Returns an array of Imdb::Movie objects for easy search result yielded.
# If the +query+ was an exact match, a single element array will be returned.
def movies
@movies ||= (exact_match? ? parse_movie : parse_movies)
end
private
def document
@document ||= Hpricot(Imdb::Search.query(@query))
end
def self.query(query)
open("http://akas.imdb.com/find?q=#{CGI::escape(query)};s=tt")
end
def parse_movie
id = document.at("head/link[@rel='canonical']")['href'][/\d+/]
title = document.at("h1").innerHTML.split('<span').first.strip.imdb_unescape_html
[Imdb::Movie.new(id, title)]
end
# Returns true if the search yielded only one result, an exact match
def exact_match?
!document.at("//table[@id='title-overview-widget-layout']").nil?
end
end # Search
end # Imdb
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