IMDB Trailer advice needed.

[billyad2000]

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/Bo...=102&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.

[blittan]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448157/trailers

seems like you could parse after /imdbid/trailers..

[spiff]

yeah, we chain into the /trailers page and fetch the url from there

[billyad2000]

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

[billyad2000]

No matter, i've sussed it.

Thanx for your help

[blittan]

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.