Re: [Imdbpy-help] Better imdbID support for imdbpy2sql

2013-11-06 Thread confounded
Hello! Sorry to dredge up a topic that's well over three years old, but I was curious about what the md5s in the database were. I have a use for imdbid's (predictably enough!). Did anything ever come of the repository idea? If not, sorry to be a bore! On Saturday, 21 August 2010 16:53:38 UTC+

Re: [Imdbpy-help] Better imdbID support for imdbpy2sql

2010-08-21 Thread Davide Alberani
On Jul 30, Alexmipego wrote: > Nice news I guess :) > > I'm no Python expert (neither imdbpy) so I will leave the changes for > you. Pardon the long delay: I'm busy as hell. :-( I've committed, to a forked repository ,a version of IMDbPY that supports MD5 hashes of movie titles and person/char

Re: [Imdbpy-help] Better imdbID support for imdbpy2sql

2010-07-31 Thread Davide Alberani
On Jul 30, Alexmipego wrote: > I'm hoping to create a script that manages > everything and host the data & api for upload/download in google's > appengine. On this aspect, I assume everything is for personal and non-commercial use: the IMDb terms of service are pretty clear on the matter. :-) In

Re: [Imdbpy-help] Better imdbID support for imdbpy2sql

2010-07-30 Thread Alexmipego
Nice news I guess :) I'm no Python expert (neither imdbpy) so I will leave the changes for you. But I can let you know that for me it was a matter of adding a column in the sql schemas files and the respective field in the code loading the titles data (using a md5 function of course). 2 simple lin

Re: [Imdbpy-help] Better imdbID support for imdbpy2sql

2010-07-30 Thread Davide Alberani
On Jul 30, Alexmipego wrote: > Once the MD5 column was present on the > distribution everyone would be compatible with my solution. You ask > about when and where this "matching" would be done, and the beauty of > this (for you) is that it can be done completely outside imdbpy2sql. I admit you'v

Re: [Imdbpy-help] Better imdbID support for imdbpy2sql

2010-07-30 Thread Alexmipego
Hi, True, we could simply create a 'repository' with original title + imdbid but there are 2 issues with that that I considered: 1. Storage wise the MD5 sum is always 32 chars and it's easy to parse and specially store in memory for a lookup table 2. I've found encoding issues on the issues, (e.g.

Re: [Imdbpy-help] Better imdbID support for imdbpy2sql

2010-07-30 Thread Davide Alberani
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Alexmipego wrote: > > For the project I've in mind I really need > to have as many imdbid values mapped as possible. During research, and > checking the raw files myself, I found that many people ask for it but > it's kinda impossible for imdbpy2sql to do better th