This is with regard to my XBMC Media Companion Program.
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Some people are asking me to add the ability to scrape trailer URLs from IMDB. It is here that I need some help.
After scraping a movie using XBMC it returns the following url for the trailer -
http://www.totaleclips.com/Player/Bounce...&type=.flv
My question is this -
How and where is this information gathered. I have been through every IMDB page I can think of looking for somewhere that will allow me to get a link like this and to be quite honest I am baffled.
I am very new to scrapers and I would appreciate it greatly if someone could point me in the right direction.
IMDB Trailer advice needed.
billyad2000
Media Companion Founder Joined: Oct 2007 Reputation: 17 |
2008-07-26 09:43
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blittan
Team-XBMC Handyman Joined: Jun 2004 Reputation: 11 Location: Sweden |
2008-07-26 10:47
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spiff
Grumpy Bastard Developer Joined: Nov 2003 Reputation: 82 |
2008-07-26 11:44
Post: #3
yeah, we chain into the /trailers page and fetch the url from there
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billyad2000
Media Companion Founder Joined: Oct 2007 Reputation: 17 |
2008-07-26 14:49
Post: #4
That's how far I get then I bump into my problem.
I can only find links to another page containing the trailer, i.e. /rg/VIDEO_TITLE/GALLERY/video/screenplay/vi2291335449/ when I could use /screenplay/vi2291335449/trailer.flv or something similar This is also a very different url to what XBMC produces of totaleclips.com/Player/Bounce.aspx?eclipid=e35335&bitrateid=314&vendorid=102&type=.flv for the same movie
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billyad2000
Media Companion Founder Joined: Oct 2007 Reputation: 17 |
2008-07-26 17:22
Post: #5
No matter, i've sussed it.
Thanx for your help
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blittan
Team-XBMC Handyman Joined: Jun 2004 Reputation: 11 Location: Sweden |
2008-07-26 23:09
Post: #6
you should really narrow this one down, since i seen a few movies not having any trailers on imdb, just links to another page.. then you might want to have like 5 or 6 pages you support scraping on.. or if its not on imdb, then just let the user know that there was no trailer found, but they can manually enter a trailer of their own.
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