fetching data from IMDB

[Robby Stephenson]

Hi,

On Saturday 12 July 2008, Semi Gr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> looks like IMDB again changed the html code, and Tellico 1.3.3
> doesn't fetch plot summary.

Heh, it's all fun when they do that, eh? I think they have a schedule just 
so they break all the software out there that parses their output.

> I played with the code and found out that the following change in
> imdbfetcher.cpp:
> instead of
> QRegExp plotRx(QString::fromLatin1("Plot
> (?:outline|summary):(.*)<[^/].*</"), false);
> put
> QRegExp plotRx(QString::fromLatin1("Plot:</h5>(.*)(</|\\|)"), false);
> does the trick. The only problem is that if there is no plot summary you
> end up with
> the text "add synopsis" as a plot summary in tellico. So it's not
> perfect, but it's better then
> nothing.

Well, if it works! I'm running around out of town for a week, so when I get 
back, I'll take a look.

Robby