IMDB Parser

A parser for the IMDB actor and actress files.

Parses the actors.list and actresses.list files from IMDB's alternate interfaces page.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'imdb-parser'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install imdb-parser

Usage

Here is a simple example of how to use the library. Run rspec to see a list of the available methods.

require 'imdb/parser'

parser = IMDB::Parser::Parser.new(File.open("actors.list" ,'r:ISO-8859-1'))
parser.each do |actor|
    puts actor.name
    puts "=" * actor.name.length
    actor.roles.each do |role|
        puts "  * #{role.title} (#{role.character})"
    end
    puts
end

File encoding

The files provided by IMDB are encoded as ISO-8859-1. Make sure you open the files as such or you will get encoding errors.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Fixing broken records

1. Use the utility "next_edgecase" utility to generate a test case for the broken record

ruby -I lib tools/next_edgecase.rb /path/to/actors.list

2. Add the resulting case to spec/role_spec.rb in the describe "::parse" do section.
3. Fix it