IMDB Details Grabber: Using PHP DOM XPath to extract Movie details

thanks :-)
i'll try to use it soon...

For some reason, I'm getting the following error:
Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: htmlParseEntityRef: no name in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167260/, line: 642 in class.imdb.php on line 146

Over and over and over again, but the result does show at the end.

The code doesn't seem to work, I get error messages, it cannot find DomDocument ? Where is that declared..???

I think yours will be even better than these alternatives. Looks pretty straight forward.

Hi there

i have used your script. it works great. but whatever i do i cant retrieve the CAST of the movie from that page. Please let me know if its possible
cheers

This is really awesome. Really easy to use.

Thanks

This piece of writing is excellent and I liked it a lot.

Thanks for making this. I have been looking for something like this to manage my persona movie collection using PHP / MySQL.

When I put your 2 files in my xampp/htdocs/moviecritc folder and run it through http://localhost/moviecritc/test.imdb.php in the browser, I get the following error:

http://i.imgur.com/YGRxG.png

Can you please help identify this? Thanks.

Is there anyway cast can be grabbed?. I am looking at this script and but I need a way to grab the cast. Is it possible?

Nice script...
Its simple and easy to use. Thanks for sharing.

Hello Alif,

Thank you. I was looking for information on how to do this myself when I stumbled on your code. This is directly usable. Nice work.

I have one question. I would also like to grab the "User Rating:" but I have trouble locating the text.

Is this possible to do at all?

Thanks in advance,
EJEE

any chance you can get celebrity details eg from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200692/??

why dont this wor

$movieInfo = $imdbObj
->add('Archive Footage:', '/div/a')
->get('http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004710/');

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200692/

Hey Alif,

thanks for this nice script (-:
but how can i show the results in my Page with HTML?

like "echo "Film: " + $movieInfo[????];

I m not the biggest Profi (-: Sorry..

wou8ld nice if you help me (-:

Thanks, Dennis

This is an great piece of script. Its much easier to use.

Fatal error (this could be when the IMDB query fails)

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function getAttribute() on a non-object

public function getImdbURL($url) {
$searchURL = 'http://www.imdb.com/find?q='.urlencode($url);
$searchDom = new DomDocument();
$searchLoad = $searchDom->loadHTMLFile($searchURL);
$xpath = new DomXPath($searchDom);
return 'http://www.imdb.com'.$xpath->query('//p[@style]/b/a')->item(0)->getAttribute('href');
}

When I use your IMDB demo with a title + year (eg. "The Italian Job (1969)"), I get a correct result. When I use your script locally, nothing is returned.

Any ideas ?

HI,
i'm on the road of learning web scraping
can't plz exmplai how to keep formatting while scrapping content because my scraped article are not formatted so useless

I a trying very hard to make a copy of the example page. When you type in a movie title or IMDB url i just need it to return the info when I hit grab.

I am able to get it to show the examples but Ive had no luck figuring out how to make it search and bring back the results.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I have tested your script on two separate servers, both running PHP 5.2.14 with all aspects of DOM enabled, on one it loads everything, on the other Shutter Island doesn't load, instead it gives a Warning about DOMDocument being empty after using loadHTML and a Fatal Exception when attempting to use getAttribute on a non DOMDocument object. Do you know what could be causing the problem? Thanks.

Hey,

This is just what I was looking for, however I am getting alot of error messages when I try to use this class to get information from IMDB.

Ex:
Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: Tag layer invalid in http://www.imdb.com/find?q=Taken, line: 113 in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/film_system/etc/imdb.class.php on line 241

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile() [domdocument.loadhtmlfile]: htmlParseEntityRef: no name in http://www.imdb.com/find?q=Taken, line: 191 in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/film_system/etc/imdb.class.php on line 241

They come from the two lines in your class.imdb.php document that contain loadHTMLFile(), ex:

public function getImdbURL($url) {
$queryStr = '//p[@style]/b/a';
$validTitleStr = "//head/link[@rel='canonical']";
$searchURL = 'http://www.imdb.com/find?q='.urlencode($url);
$searchDom = new DomDocument();
*********$searchLoad = $searchDom->loadHTMLFile($searchURL);*********

$xpath = new DomXPath($searchDom);
// check to see if Imdb has directly redirected to the movie page. It happens for some movies (Ex: Shutter Island as someone pointed out).
$linkHrefURL = $xpath->query($validTitleStr)->item(0)->getAttribute('href');
if($this->isValidURL($linkHrefURL) ) {
return $linkHrefURL;
}

if($xpath->query($queryStr)->length > 0 ) {
return 'http://www.imdb.com'.$xpath->query($queryStr)->item(0)->getAttribute('href');
} else {
return false;
}
}
}

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

I found out that the script works, it get the information, but for some reason I get all of those DOMDocument errors.

A ideas on how to get them to go away?

Best regards,
Dan

PS: Awsome script :)

Your script is really nice but my script need to show search result from imdb and then grab infos... how can i do that? Thank you very much. :)

hello...i im trying to use this excellent script but can't to make to work to fetch following data:

studio, writer, producer, cast, audiencerating and rating.

for example i use folloving code:

$movieInfo = $imdbObj->add('Writer:', '/div/text()');

echo $movieInfo['Writer:']."";

but result is empty.

here is imdb source:

Writer:

Barry Levy

but i think that problem is /name/nm1633356/

so could fix this?

many thanks.

This script not working to new IMDB layout. do you have updated script?

Great script! Thank you.

I would just add few lines to capture the "Release date": Starting from line 160 I repeated the code in the loop above with a small modification:

$nodeNameList=$xpath->query('h4',$nodeList->item($i));
$grabName=trim($nodeNameList->item(0)->nodeValue);
$nodeValueList=$xpath->query('text()', $nodeList->item($i));
$grabValue[$grabName]=$this->getValue('/text()',$nodeValueList);

Alex

thanks, i hope this works

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0860462/

this IMDB link dosen't work. how to fix it
thank you

HEy,
can you publish your php from your demo page, its very good formated and without the array,.........

Big Thx

Gret

I love this script. Is there anyway to get the list of genres for the movie?