Hi, > I've tried playing with the query parameters, but without luck; > does anyone knows a way to search for such a generic surname > and get a _short_ list with the best X (lets say that X is 20 or > another configurable parameter) matches? After a few test I figured out, that http://akas.imdb.com/find?q=pong&nm=on&mx=20 gives 34 results.
I'm not sure if there could be a algorithm that could predict such search phrases. Because if you try 'long', you will exceed the limit of 500. And you only have But, I guess, if you have enough bandwidth, you can write a small script, that will brute force all combinations of 4 letters and will test the response from the search engine for the amount of results. You only have to try 26^4 = 456976 times ;-) And by the way, each day the imdb is increasing ... so there will be a jitter in the search results. Greetings Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-devel mailing list Imdbpy-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-devel
