On Jan 31, Mike Shepanski <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am using IMDBPy to search a lot of foreign movies. Only problem
> I am currently having is trying to get the AKA from the search
> results? Is this possible easily?
While I've not tested it lately, the parser for searches made
using the 'http' data access system should return AKAs.
> Right now I am only seeing the following returned when
> searching for "Adrift in Tokyo":
Unfortunately what I've said above is true only for the parser
of a list of matching movies.
Your case is a little special: searching for "Adrift in Tokyo"
you get a direct hit, and you land on the title's page.
>From here, _another_ parser fetches movie's title and other
information, but not the AKAs.
The fact is that it would be a little complex to add proper
AKAs handling to that parser (the code to handle it in movieParser
is not nice, too...)
Your options:
1. when you don't get AKAs, do this:
imdbInstance.update(movie, 'main')
if present, the AKAs will be collected (along with a lot of
other information).
2. set up, using your browser, a new IMDb's account so that it never
returns a title's page, in case of a single hit.
get the "id" and "uu" cookies (with Firefox it's easy to see
the content of cookies) and use them in your ~/.imdbpy.cfg configuration
file (see the cookie_id and cookie_uu options).
HTH,
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Davide Alberani <[email protected]> [GPG KeyID: 0x465BFD47]
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