MovieMeter.nl (Dutch Movies) Scraper development...

[Striker]

I would like to try and create a moviemeter.nl scraper.
I just doen't have as much information a imdb, only:

Name
Year
Country
Genre(s)
Runtime
Director name
Actor names
Plot
Image

Is it possible to retrieve other things like rating from imdb?

[snaaps50]

i want this also

I have checkt diffent pages and all pages has the same content:

PHP Code:

<img class="poster" src="http://www.moviemeter.nl/images/covers/30000/30611.jpg" style="width: 200px;" alt="Verlengd Weekend (2005)" /><div id="film_stars"><div class="star_full"></div><div class="star_full"></div><div class="star_full"></div><div class="star_empty"></div><div class="star_empty"></div></div><div id="film_votes"><b>133</b> stemmen<span class="divider"> | </span>gemiddelde <b>3,11</b></div><div id="film_poster_stats_topnotation" style="padding-bottom: 20px;"></div><div id="film_myvote"></div><div id="film_poster_stats_bottom"  style="background: red;margin-top: -46px;"></div></div><div id="film_info">Belgi&euml;<br />Komedie<br />93 minuten<br /><br />geregisseerd door <a href="http://www.moviemeter.nl/director/4743">Hans Herbots</a><br />met Jan Decleir, Koen De Bouw en Wouter Hendrickx<br /><br />Deze sociale komedie vertelt het verhaal van twee ontslagen werknemers van een Kempisch familiebedrijfje (Jan Decleir en Wouter Hendrickx) die hun ex-werkgever (Koen De Bouw) gijzelen in zijn eigen huis. Het duo heeft het plan opgevat voor zichzelf en hun gedupeerde werkmakkers een schadevergoeding af te dwingen. Maar niets loopt zoals gepland.</div>
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mabey there is somebody to can make a plugin based on the source code from videometer.nl

[spiff]

yes, you can chain as you want in the scrapers - just have a look at the imdb one

[Trazer]

I'm also trying to make a scraper for moviemeter.nl. Problem is i cant get the results of the search.

the search page:
http://www.moviemeter.nl/film.search/moviename

redirects to
http://www.moviemeter.nl/film/searchresults#results

What i get after scraping this page is a blank search page.

Anyone have any tips how to get the search results?

Been looking at other scrapers for about a day now but haven't been able to find the solution.

[spiff]

you need to post the form at http://www.moviemeter.nl/film/search/

[Trazer]

Forgive me if this is an newbie question. I'm just starting with this scraper stuff.

Here's what i got
After some searching i found that you can query moviemeter.nl like this:

http://www.moviemeter.nl/calls/quicksearch.php?hash=[HASHCODE]&type=films&search=[MOVIENAME]

To do this i need to get the hashcode from the http://www.moviemeter.nl main page. This means i first have to request the main page. Read the hashcode from the results and then create my actual search request.

I can't seem to figure out how to do this in the scraper. Does anyone have an idea/solution?

[spiff]

i just added chaining in getsearchresults so you can do this

cheers

spiff

[Bigfoot87]

What's the status of this project?
I would love to see my movieinformation in Dutch...
And a lot of Dutch community-members with me I guess...

[Trazer]

I can't speak for the topic starter but i'm still working on it. As i'm just getting into this scraper development i'm at a trial and error stage so it might take me a while.

[spiff]

you got the search thing working i assume?