Simple IMDB API

imdbapi.php

//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;
	}