[Edu-sig] Movies anyone?

[Vern Ceder]

Now this is cool. Lots of possible options with live data that is of 
interest to a lot of people... what's not to like? :)

Thanks for posting this.

Vern

kirby urner wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone is using, or thinking of using, this imdbpy to
> give students an early appreciation for the power of an open source
> Python package, to deliver relevant movie-related information.
> 
> Cut and pasting (excerpting) from
> http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/docs/README.users.txt, the scripts look
> like this (if you've not used imdb:  every movie, actor etc. is tagged
> with a number):
> 
> $ get_movie.py 0133093
> Movie
> =====
> Title: Matrix, The
> Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi.
> Director: Andy Wachowski (as The Wachowski Brothers), Larry Wachowski
> (as The Wachowski Brothers).
> Writer: Andy Wachowski (written by) (as The Wachowski Brothers), Larry
> Wachowski (written by) (as The Wachowski Brothers).
> Cast: Keanu Reeves (Neo (Thomas A. Anderson)), Laurence Fishburne
> (Morpheus), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity), Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith),
> Joe Pantoliano (Cypher (Mr. Reagan)).
> Runtime: 136.
> Country: USA.
> Language: English.
> Rating: 8.5
> Votes: 114,264
> Plot: In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves)
> discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate
> facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of
> placating us while our life essence is "farmed" to fuel the Matrix's
> campaign of domination in the "real" world. He joins like-minded Rebel
> warriors Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie Ann Moss)
> in their struggle to overthrow the Matrix.
> 
> I've written my own screen scraper for imdb (probably wrote about it
> here, don't remember), but it never performed satisfactorily.  Used it
> with one Saturday Academy class as a part of my intro.  At least
> useful for explaining what "screen scraper" means.  Imdbpy would be
> more impressive I think, also better than the xml-rpc script we played
> with at Winterhaven (8th grade, write-up at my site).
> 
> Kirby
> 4dsolutions.net
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