2008-07-26, 14:52
The official/standard version of the FilmAffinity scraper produces Spanish language results. There's nothing wrong with that but the FilmAffinity website does offer an English language option and this maybe useful for some people.
As part of an effort to learn how to construct a Scraper, I have made a start at converting the Spanish version to access the English language version.
While the main difference is changing the country/language code in the URLs from es for Espagne to en for English the section that deals with actually scrapping the results also needs changing to look for different keywords. I have made a start on that as well but it still needs additional work.
As currently my knowledge of scrapers is limited I am hoping others here may assist in finishing it.
My initial version can be downloaded here http://homepage.mac.com/jelockwood/.Publ...nityen.zip
As part of an effort to learn how to construct a Scraper, I have made a start at converting the Spanish version to access the English language version.
While the main difference is changing the country/language code in the URLs from es for Espagne to en for English the section that deals with actually scrapping the results also needs changing to look for different keywords. I have made a start on that as well but it still needs additional work.
As currently my knowledge of scrapers is limited I am hoping others here may assist in finishing it.
My initial version can be downloaded here http://homepage.mac.com/jelockwood/.Publ...nityen.zip