Thank you Erdal and Hadley for your answeres. It now works perfectly. Also, I will look at the github solution, even if I don't have any experience of Ruby.
Once again, thank you. Richard 2012/7/26 Hadley Wickham <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Richard Ohrvall > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am new to R in general and ways to retrieve XML or JSON data in >> particular. I have tried to get information through the XML package >> and various websites without being able to do exactly what I want. I >> hope someone of you can give me some help. >> >> I want to retrieve information about movies from IMDB or rather the >> unofficial api, www.imdbapi.com. I have a vector with a lot movie-ids >> according to IMDB standard. To give just a few: >> >> ids <-c("tt0110074", "tt0096184", "tt0081568", "tt0448134", "tt0079367") >> >> Now, I want to create a data frame where each of the movies refer to >> one line and the other information is retrieved from the api. This can >> be retrieved either as XML data or JSON data, e.g. >> >> JSON: >> http://www.imdbapi.com/?i=tt0110074&tomatoes=TRUE >> >> XML: >> http://www.imdbapi.com/?i=tt0110074&r=XML&tomatoes=TRUE >> >> Where i refer to the movie-id, i.e. the information I have in my >> vector. They are all in the format ttXXXXXXX > > library(httr) > library(rjson) > > fromJSON(text_content(GET("http://www.imdbapi.com/?i=tt0110074&tomatoes=TRUE";))) > > This will be a bit easier in the next version of httr > > content(GET("http://www.imdbapi.com/?i=tt0110074&tomatoes=TRUE";)), > type = "application/json") > > See also https://github.com/hadley/data-movies, which I suspect is a > faster approach than using an API. > > Hadley > > > > -- > Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair > Department of Statistics / Rice University > http://had.co.nz/ -- Richard Öhrvall http://richardohrvall.com/ https://twitter.com/richardohrvall ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
