On May 18, michael charclo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I look for 'allo allo' on the IMDb website the series are in first > place. > When I look for 'allo allo' with imdbpy I get the movie 'Gone with the > wind'. > Any idea why this happens?
Hi! Hmmm... funny thing. Not sure why, but these are the facts: doing an usual search on the web site, you'll get a list which first lists "Exact Matches" and after that "Partial Matches" [1]. Performing a search using IMDbPY, you get first "Popular Titles" and after that (in an "Other Results" sub-section) the "Exact Matches" and the "Partial Matches". I can think of two causes: 1. IMDbPY uses the akas.imdb.com server; maybe it handles queries in a slightly different way. 2. one of the "search preferences" set for the IMDbPYweb's account triggers this behavior. I don't consider this exactly a bug, even if I agree that in some circumstances the results can looks a bit odd. If this results too annoying, you can do some tests using another account and then use it (for both 'http' and 'mobile' data access system), using the cookie_id and cookie_uu parameters of the do_adult_search method [2]. If the problem is with the used server, it can be changed at run-time, overriding the imdb.imdbURL_find variable, like this: import imdb imdb.imdbURL_find = 'http://MYPREFERREDSERVER.imdb.com/find?' ia = imdb.IMDb('http') results = ia.search_movie('title to search') ... Thank you for the report! Oh, if you want to do some experiments, the query used by IMDbPY is in the format: http://akas.imdb.com/find?s=tt;mx=20;q=TITLE+TO+SEARCH+FOR +++ [1] I've to check if this is true also doing a "title only" search, and not a generic search as I've done. [2] yeah, yeah: this portion of code should be moved outside, in a set_cookie method. :-) Anyway, this is an example: import imdb ia = imdb.IMDb('http') ia.do_adult_search(True, cookie_id=YOUR_ID_STRING, cookie_uu=YOUR_UU_STRING) results = ia.search_movie('title to search') -- Davide Alberani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://erlug.linux.it/~da/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-devel mailing list Imdbpy-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-devel
