IMDB::Persons - Perl extension for retrieving movies persons from IMDB.com
use IMDB::Persons;
my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => '0000129')
or
my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => 'Tom Cruise');
if($person->status) {
print "Name: ".$person->name."\n";
print "Birth Date: ".$person->date_of_birth."\n";
} else {
print "Something wrong: ".$person->error."!\n";
}
IMDB::Persons allows to retrieve an information about IMDB persons (actors, actresses, directors etc): full name, photo, date and place of birth, mini bio and filmography.
Initialize a new object.
Implements a logic to search IMDB persons by their names.
Retrieve a person full name
my $person_name = $person->name();
Returns a mini bio for specified IMDB person
my $mini_bio = $person->mini_bio();
Returns a date of birth of IMDB person in format 'day' 'month caption' 'year':
my $d_birth = $person->date_of_birth();
Returns a name of place of the birth
my $place = $person->place_of_birth();
Return a path to the person's photo
my $photo = $person->photo();
Returns a person's filmography as array of hashes with a following structure:
my $fg = $person->filmography();
__DATA__
$fg = [
{ title => 'movie title',
role => 'person role',
year => 'year of movie production',
code => 'IMDB code of movie',
}
];
Nothing
Please, send me any found bugs by email: misha@thunderworx.com.
HTML::TokeParser, IMDB::BaseClass; IMDB::Film;
Mikhail Stepanov (stepanov.michael@gmail.com)
Copyright (c) 2004, Mikhail Stepanov. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.
