scraper.php

<?php
require 'scraperwiki.php';
require 'scraperwiki/simple_html_dom.php';
######################################
#  Scrapes top 250 movies from imdb
#  Outputs rank and id
######################################
$html = scraperwiki::scrape("http://www.imdb.com/chart/top");

$dom = new simple_html_dom();
$dom->load($html);

$movies=$dom->find('.titleColumn');
foreach($dom->find('td.titleColumn') as $movie) {

   preg_match('#.*?([1-9][0-9]{0,2})\..*?<a.*?\/title\/(.+?)\/.*#', $movie->innertext, $match);
  
   scraperwiki::save_sqlite(['imdb_id'],['rank'=>$match[1],'imdb_id'=>$match[2]]);
}

?>