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http://www.metacritic.com/

There is API for RottenTomatoes, so we don't need to use 'html parsing'.
It's documented here: 
http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/

put the license in the distributed jar if needed.

Some services have quite a bit of dependencies (netflix) and it might be
handy for the user to be able to choose what services to use

I suggest loading the services using the java 6 ServiceLoader mechanism:
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/extensible/index.html

any objections/ideas

this would also force a multi module build with at least the netflix module
split off

as requested in movie browser:
http://code.google.com/p/movie-browser/issues/detail?id=83

title say all

[deleted issue]

should not return a page if end page is search page

stuff to get somebody going with the project

Metacritic support:
http://www.metacritic.com/

Could use this as an example:
https://github.com/BirdAPI/Metacritic-Scraper-API/blob/master/metacritic.py

add a web page cache using ehcache and make it configurable in the module

http://www.blippr.com

see if they have a good api that we can use

http://www.cinenews.be
http://www.cinebel.be/nl/
http://www.cinebel.be/fr/

try to make a regex parser
eg:
http://code.google.com/p/jmoviedb/source/browse/trunk/jmoviedb/src/com/googlecod
e/jmoviedb/net/ImdbParser.java

There is a korean film database page at: http://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/
A parser would be nice for that.

this article has a ling to the google data api + youtube info

http://revolucionlibrary.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/how-its-made-youtube-player-in
-java/

We might want to use this: http://www.imdbapi.com/
It' not official but works good

Francis asked me to put some remarks i had into issues:

An export to google docs would be nice, either to doc or spreadsheet (or
the database component if it gets there)

Import from spreadsheet could double as the database (though loading time
could be an issue here)

the current version is not working for most services

possibly add these services:

www.ondertitel.com
www.nlondertitels.com
www.opensubtitles.org

http://www.subscene.nl/
http://www.subtitlesource.org/
http://subs.motechnet.com/
http://www.divxsubtitles.net/

feel free to add more...

see if we can use this:

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/HTCJ/Getting+Started

move the juics stuff to a module

http://www.omdb.org/movie

http://bugs.omdb.org/wiki/API
http://bugs.omdb.org/wiki/InstallFromSubversion

this would be a nice legal alternative for imdb


Hey ..

We've implemented a page caching mechanism that results
in static pages. So i don't see any problem with 400 or 40.000
requests in a short time :-) As long as apache can handle it.

Cheers
 Ben

On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:46, Axel Waldau wrote:

        This is great news! I'd like to use your api in a movie browsing
        application I'm working on. Is there a problem calling the service up
        to 400 times in a short time span? Should I wait a certain amount of
        time between searches? I will cache the data after the first lookup.

        At the moment we call imdb as main service (html parsing) but this is
        not allowed so we would like to switch to an open platform...

        http://code.google.com/p/movie-browser/

http://www.themoviedb.org/

hope this project does better than OMDB

no more need for site scraing
http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/

It would be really nice to have information on the actors/actresses that
participated in the movie. I assume that in general it would be sufficient
to have a list of actor/actress names (in the same order like on the movie
pages, i.e. with descending importance).

Furthermore the director field should be actually a list, too. There some
movies with multiple directors, e.g. "Matrix". For these movies the
director's names are simply concatenated without any separator, e.g. "Andy
Wachowski Larry Wachowski" for "Matrix" (this applies at least to IMDB and
OFDB).

Hello i'm a developper and i want to use your library but I wanted to know if 
you have the rights to exploit google movies, imdb ... results ?


best regards

http://www.benmccann.com/dev-blog/java-html-parsing-library-comparison/

should be easier when using one of those with xpath?

http://developer.netflix.com/