https://github.com/tareq89/movieinfo
This simple application find all the movie names in your computer and show info from IMDB about those movies
https://github.com/tareq89/movieinfo
Last synced: about 2 months ago
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This simple application find all the movie names in your computer and show info from IMDB about those movies
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/tareq89/movieinfo
- Owner: tareq89
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2015-06-15T11:40:53.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-06-25T08:18:15.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2023-02-26T15:47:36.025Z (over 2 years ago)
- Language: HTML
- Size: 180 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.
- License: LICENSE
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# movieInfo
This simple application find all the movie names in your computer and show info from IMDB about those movies
1. Search the parent directory
2. No matter how the movie files, files inside folder are stored, just collect all the file names, store them in a set
3. From the file names, collect the movie name ( lots of regex )
4. Now, send request to IMDB site, with the movie name and download the returned HTML page
5. Parse the HTML page and collect the movie genre, rating
6. Once all the movie have been collected, output the result in an HTML file
Things need to research :
1. How to recursively collect file names inside a root directory
2. How to download HTML pages in Java Console App
3. How to parse HTML with regex
4. Most importantly, how to find that specific movie page !!! in IMDB site from your console app
Researched :
1. To search a movie by name, just send request to ---> http://www.imdb.com/find?q=[movie name]