[RELEASE] Theater Showtimes plugin

[Nuka1195]

I've separated the Theater showtimes feature of Apple Movie Trailers and made a plugin/WindowXML hybrid. It features IMDb info thanks to C-Quel and cptspiff and anybody else who did the regex for IMDb.xml. It also has an optional link to AMT to play the movies trailer(s). AMT must be installed with a full install.

You install it as a plugin.

Access the settings from plugin settings.

Depending on how you add the plugin source you may get an error message, click ok and the plugin runs fine. You will not get the error if you run it from library view or if you run it from a source plugin://video/. This is being looked at.

Thanks Jezz_X for the layout and skinning.

grab the xbmc-addons installer plugin here and you can install any of the plugins, scripts or skins in the new svn. currently only a few plugins are in the svn now.
http://xbmc-addons.googlecode.com/svn/packages/plugins/programs/XBMC-Addons_Installer_Plugin.zip

I'm working on a yahoo scraper that will cover other areas.

If anybody else would like to create a scraper, let me know if you need any help.

It's considered beta!

[Nuka1195]

[Theater Showtimes Plugin]
- changed: fetches IMDb trailer url (Thanks to C-Quel)
- changed: setting for AMT is now a choice between IMDb trailer url and AMT trailer url
- changed: english language strings
* requires XBMC revision 11433 or newer


This version requires XBMC revision 11433 or higher

[Nuka1195]

[Theater Showtimes Plugin]
- fixed: better IMDb trailer url support (Thanks to C-Quel's tireless efforts)
- fixed: details would not show if there was no plot
- changed: fetches IMDb trailer poster
- changed: english language strings
* requires XBMC revision 11433 or newer



Thanks to c-quel for his efforts.

This version requires XBMC revision 11433 or higher

[Nuka1195]

[Theater Showtimes Plugin]
- changed: Version to 1.1
- fixed: imdb trailers (maybe)
- added: new setting poster size (small, medium, large)
- changed: english language strings(30540-30580)


Does anyone use this?

[timdog82001]

I certainly will as soon as I get my xbox fixed!

[TheBoxMan]

I used to use these kind of things all the time before the tv-links script erra since I only really use them much when I'm litterly picking which film we're all going to head out and see. :-)

[eangulus]

Just wanted to find out if there is a bug with Showtimes script. Using
the www.google.com/movies site I can get my local cinema of Reading 5
Dubbo.

But in the script nothing is found. I think it may have something to
do with the fact that only 1 cinema exists here and Google returns it
complete instead of giving a list of cinemas first.

[eangulus]

As per above the postcode I use is 2830

[Nuka1195]

the pages appear slightly different for your local, i have the theater list working now, but now parsing the pages for showtimes doesn't. so still working on it.

[eangulus]

Thank you for the help.

Do yo have a working one for my area yet (not worried about other areas) that I can use now?

[Shuey]

Does anyone use this?


I installed it and love it Nuka! :)

I'm sure most know this, but just in case someone new comes to this thread, the city that it scrapes info from can be changed by editing the "settings.xml" file from within the corresponding plugins folder. Works like a charm.

Thanks Nuka ;)

[Nuka1195]

or by using the plugin settings, from the context menu :)

[Shuey]

or by using the plugin settings, from the context menu :)

I can tell what n00b I am still :P... I just realized that I can right click on the plugin from within xbmc and make adjustments there :D

[terminalx]

...I will certainly be using it now!
many thanks for this great plugin!

edit: I changed the location to "amsterdam" via the plugin settngs and in my web browser "http://www.google.com/movies" I can see my local listings but using your plugin it says no listings found. Am I doing something wrong?

many thanks

[Nuka1195]

Apple movie trailers II plugin has a theater showtime option also, basically the same code. i put amsterdam, germany and it works fine.

if you can try amsterdam, germany. then if that doesn't work, try amt ii plugin. then if that does, i will see what i did different.

thanks

[terminalx]

I will try the amt ii plugin tonight on my xbox and post it in the late evening. Many thanks for the prompt reply!

[Nuka1195]

germany does not have imdb links so you would be missing a lot of info. i do have a fix for the theaters not showing though.

[terminalx]

i do have a fix for the theaters not showing thou

Thats great - if it is not to much trouble to fix. Looking forward to try it.

Please note that Amsterdam is located in the Netherlands and not Germany (but that does not make a difference I guess because indeed in both cases there are no imdb links).

Do you still want me to try Apple movie trailers II plugin tonight?

[Nuka1195]

oh :), there are a couple issues, so may be a day or two.

[terminalx]

When I try to pull up the showtimes (using London as city) in the Apple movie trailers II plugin nothing happens. The movie trailers do play.

I am using xbmc on xbox build 8.10.

here is the log:
http://pastebin.com/m19faebd

Maybe a bad install on my side?

[Nuka1195]

yor xbmc is too old.

[Ilia]

Hi I have the same issue, when I put a location such as

http://www.google.com/movies?sc=1&near=carnegie%2C+melbourne&rl=1

it returns no result, but with AMT2 it does show..

[queeup]

I want to modify your plugin but i cant figure out how. Can you help me pls? Let me explain:

New plugin name: Theater Showtimes Lite
Source: Apple Movie Trailer II

I'm tyring popup just Fetch_Showtimes screen without Trailers.

I remove "xbmcplugin_download.py" and "xbmcplugin_trailers.py" then modify settings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<settings>
<setting id="local" type="text" label="30050" default="90210" />
<setting id="scraper" type="fileenum" mask="/" values="resources/scrapers/" label="30060" enable="!eq(-1,)" default="Google" />
<setting id="day" type="enum" lvalues="30071|30072|30073|30074|30075|30076|30077|30078" label="30070" enable="!eq(-2,)" default="0" />
</settings>


But i cant figure out how it should be default.py.

[slicemaster]

how can i link this plug-in up so i can view trailers from it? i cant seem to find the *.db file it needs....help please. works great otherwise...

thanks,

[Nuka1195]

this plugin only comes with the main amt script, so you should have your db.

[iRoNBiLL]

Would you please re-upload the file and display the new link to your plugin. I'd like to add it to Navi-X, but can't because the file is missing or the link is broken. Thanks.

iRoNBiLL

[Nuka1195]

i mis spoke (wrong thread). this is a separate plugin in xbmc-addons.

to play trailers, if none are scraped from IMDb open plugin settings and browse for the AMT.db, which is created from Apple Movie Trailers script and set use AMT for trailers.

queeup, you need to create a default.py and pass the proper info. look at how it works in amt lite (ii)