On Mar 20, Sébastien RAGONS <srag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Our parsers depends on the content/syntax/context of the 'akas'
> > server (or, at least, of the English/international version), there
> > no way we could support localized version of the imdb site, I fear.
>
> impossible n'est pas francais ;)
What about "so difficult it's not worth it"? ;-)
> > Notice that the normally the national sites present less content
> > (the only plus is that it's translated, but...)
>
> sorry but for me it is essential
> and even more for my wife or my children ....
As said, our parsers heavily depends on the tags and even on the
strings used by the akas server. Converting the 'http' parsers would
be a bloodbath; maybe you can have a look at 'mobile' (if you only
need main pages and plot/biographies of movies/persons/characters:
it uses the 'http' parsers for everything else).
But even for 'mobile', I'm not sure if you could modify it easily and
if it's worth to integrate changes to support national versions (probably
not: I don't want to make it slow, for instance).
A different approach: use IMDbPY ('http' or 'mobile') to fetch the bulk
of information you need - if the translated ones are not too many, write
specific scrapers to access the French site and override the English
entries. This way you don't have to modify IMDbPY, but just write a
slightly more complex script.
If you are worrying about labels like "directors", "plot" and so on,
we can already easily (?) translate them. See:
http://bitbucket.org/alberanid/imdbpy/src/tip/docs/README.locale
http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/imdbpy/c/default/
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