I attached a patch which partially fixes the problem for version 0.9-1. The
problem is a probably a redesign of the imdb homepage. Unfortunately, the
developer didn't add any comments about the expected input, which makes it
complicated to find out how the new commands should look like.
With the patch, the tool is at least able to list search results again and it
can extract the title (i got stuck at the extraction of the director).
Personally, I think, bash and regular expressions are just the wrong language
for parsing HTML, because it also leads to escaping problems (see below) and
can return very surprising result if texts contain trigger words.
Here the result after patching:
$ imdb-get -s alien
1: Alien (1979)
2: Untitled Neill Blomkamp/Alien Project (2017)
3: Alien (2010) (Video)
4: Aliens (1986)
5: Alien³ (1992)
6: Outpost 37 (2014)
7: Alien: Resurrection (1997)
8: Aliens in the Attic (2009)
9: Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
10: Alienator (1990)
Select a Film: 1
Getting details from IMDB
id: tt0078748
$ imdb-get -a -s alien
1: Alien (1979)
2: Untitled Neill Blomkamp/Alien Project (2017)
3: Alien (2010) (Video)
4: Aliens (1986)
5: Alien³ (1992)
6: Outpost 37 (2014)
7: Alien: Resurrection (1997)
8: Aliens in the Attic (2009)
9: Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
10: Alienator (1990)
Select a Film: 1
Getting details from IMDB
id: tt0078748
title: Alien
year: 1979
director: Ridley Scott
Writers: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imdb-tools/+bug/1180225/+attachment/4338190/+files/imdb-patch-unfinished.patch
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