Tag: Screen Scraping

Get a Movie’s Details From IMDb

February 23, 2009 | By | 8 Comments

A while back when I was developing MoviePlay (a movies database) I wanted to allow the user to get the movie’s details from IMDb (The Internet Movie Database) instead of having him/her enter it manually. IMDb does not provide a way for developers to use their data, so I wrote the code below to screen [...]

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Dictionaries of HTML Codes

February 11, 2009 | By | Add a Comment

I wrote this class to help me do some screen scraping programs. It has two Dictionary objects. One contains the HTML codes and their text equivalents and the other contains the numeric HTML codes and their text equivalents.

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