On Nov 11, ori cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i made a little script to go over all the movies in the titles table > and update their imdb ID, ignoring tv series and video games etc.. > the list is 400,000 in size. its taking quite a while for each file > to get the imdb id, because its taking it from the web. > > is there a quicker way of doing that?
For sure there is, but please: don't do it. A thing is using IMDbPY for a light-weighted usage (fetching a movie/person ID here and there, when needed), another is exploiting their web site to fetch every single movie page in the database. See the links in http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/docs/DISCLAIMER.txt for an overview of IMDb's policies. The movie/person/whateverIDs are not present in the plain text data files distributed by IMDb, and so IMDbPY is forced to fabricate them (and as you have noticed they don't match with the "real" imdbIDs used by the IMDb web site); anyway, there's no real need to have a complete map between titles and imdbIDs for personal usage. Moreover, titles are changed/updated/fixed, and so the map will be (partially) wrong in no time. Thanks, -- Davide Alberani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://erlug.linux.it/~da/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-help
