imdb_celebrity

• github.com/sandeepkrao/imdb_celebrity

DESCRIPTION:

• Imdb_celebrity is a ruby-gem which is used for scrapping celebrity pages from www.imdb.com . You can install imdb_celebrity as

  gem install imdb_celebrity
  

  With current initial release we can search a celebrity with name or we can fetch content for a celebrity with given IMDB id or/and name, by specifying which parser we want to use. Right now we support Hpricot and Nokogiri as parser classes.

  Usages:

  require 'imdb_celebrity'
  
  ** searching a celebrity
    imdb_celebs = ImdbCelebrity::Search.new("Brad Pitt")
    imdb_celebs.celebrities
    # this will return array of celebrity objects. 
    Also you can define the ParserClass which u wanna use [ right now you have choice of using either Nokogiri or Hpricot], as
    imdb_celebs = ImdbCelebrity::Search.new("Brad Pitt", "NokogiriParser") #by default it will be HpricotParser
    imdb_celebs.celebrities
  
  ** Fetching data for celebrity
    celeb = ImdbCelebrity::Celebrity.new("0000093", "brad pitt") # give 7 digit imdbid number
    celeb.parser
    => it will give you the type of parser class it using
    celeb.public_methods(false)
    => will give you the public methods of ImdbCelebrity::Celebrity class only
    celeb.to_s
    => will return an array of celebrity data items containing name, real_name, biography, nationality, height, url.
  

REQUIREMENTS:

* Hpricot gem should be installed.
* Nokogiri gem should be installed.

INSTALL:

gem install imdb_celebrity
you may need sudo permissions to install gem.

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

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