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August 6, 2012 11:28
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Simple IMDB API
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//url | |
$url = 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/'; | |
//get the page content | |
$imdb_content = get_data($url); | |
//parse for product name | |
$name = get_match('/<title>(.*)<\/title>/isU',$imdb_content); | |
$director = strip_tags(get_match('/<h5[^>]*>Director:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content)); | |
$plot = get_match('/<h5[^>]*>Plot:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content); | |
$release_date = get_match('/<h5[^>]*>Release Date:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content); | |
$mpaa = get_match('/<a href="\/mpaa">MPAA<\/a>:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content); | |
$run_time = get_match('/Runtime:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU',$imdb_content); | |
//build content | |
$content.= '<h2>Film</h2><p>'.$name.'</p>'; | |
$content.= '<h2>Director</h2><p>'.$director.'</p>'; | |
$content.= '<h2>Plot</h2><p>'.substr($plot,0,strpos($plot,'<a')).'</p>'; | |
$content.= '<h2>Release Date</h2><p>'.substr($release_date,0,strpos($release_date,'<a')).'</p>'; | |
$content.= '<h2>MPAA</h2><p>'.$mpaa.'</p>'; | |
$content.= '<h2>Run Time</h2><p>'.$run_time.'</p>'; | |
$content.= '<h2>Full Details</h2><p><a href="'.$url.'" rel="nofollow">'.$url.'</a></p>'; | |
echo $content; | |
//gets the match content | |
function get_match($regex,$content) | |
{ | |
preg_match($regex,$content,$matches); | |
return $matches[1]; | |
} | |
//gets the data from a URL | |
function get_data($url) | |
{ | |
$ch = curl_init(); | |
$timeout = 5; | |
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url); | |
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); | |
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout); | |
$data = curl_exec($ch); | |
curl_close($ch); | |
return $data; | |
} |
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