This is a fork of Jon Maddox’s gem imdb_og (github.com/maddox/imdb)

A simple ruby library to scrape IMDB.

• github.com/derobo/imdb

• Searching imdb for movies based on title

• Getting a Movie object based on it’s imdb id

• Most information on imdb gets scraped, like title, poster, rating, alternative titles etc

You should use following code to include this gem into your project. This prevents namespace issus.

require ‘rubygems’ begin

		gem "derobo-imdb_og"
		require "imdb"

rescue Gem::LoadError

		# handle the error somehow

end

To search for a movie(including alternative titles):

m = Imdb.search_movies_by_title(“Ein Fisch namens Wanda”, true)

m.first #=> “A Fish Called Wanda” m.first #=> “tt0095159”

To get a movie by it’s imdb-id:

m = Imdb.find_movie_by_id(“tt095159”) m.title #=> “A Fish Called Wanda”

Following gems are needed:

• Hpricot

• htmlentities

Install and activated the gemcutter gem if needed $ gem install gemcutter $ gem tumble

To install the gem itself run $ gem install derobo-imdb_og