On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Rick Summerhill <rr...@summerhill.org> wrote: > > David, is there a write-up on the web page about the issues related to the > imdbIDs/sqlIDs, and are there work arounds that people use,
Not much, as a matter of fact. As said, the real imdbIDs are not in the plain text data files, so we have to make up ours IDs for movies, persons, etc. The IMDbPY's database has a field, 'imdb_id', that is used to store the real imdbID; it's updated transparently when for some reason your code do something that requires a connection to the web to fetch data for the given movie/person/... For example, these method will store the real imdbID: get_imdbMovieID, get_imdbID, get_imdbURL. The imdbpy2sql.py tries to be smart enough, doing an upgrade, to preserve the realIDs (associations beween movies/persons/... and real imdbIDs is done checking the md5sum of the row). Unfortunately I think that there're still some bugs in the code, especially using postgresql and/or SQlAlchemy. :-| Beside this, there's not much you can do, and I'd refrain you from using IMDbPY to scan each and every title on the IMDb web site... you can't really DoS them (ehi, it's Amazon ;) but it's for sure against their policies. :-) HTH, -- Davide Alberani <davide.alber...@gmail.com> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://www.mimante.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-help mailing list Imdbpy-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-help
