IMDB::Persons

NAME

IMDB::Persons - Perl extension for retrieving movies persons from IMDB.com

SYNOPSIS

use IMDB::Persons;
#
# Retrieve a person information by IMDB code
#
my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => '0000129');
or
#
# Retrieve a person information by name
#
my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => 'Tom Cruise');
or
#
# Process already stored HTML page from IMDB
#
my $person = new IMDB::Persons(file => 'imdb.html');
if($person->status) {
print "Name: ".$person->name."\n";
print "Birth Date: ".$person->date_of_birth."\n";
} else {
print "Something wrong: ".$person->error."!\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

IMDB::Persons allows one to retrieve an information about IMDB persons (actors, actresses, directors etc): full name, photo, date and place of birth, mini bio and filmography.

Object Private Methods

_init()

Initialize a new object.

_search_person()

Implements a logic to search IMDB persons by their names.

Object Public Methods

name()

Retrieve a person full name

my $person_name = $person->name();

mini_bio()

Returns a mini bio for specified IMDB person

my $mini_bio = $person->mini_bio();

date_of_birth()

Returns a date of birth of IMDB person in format ’day’ ’month caption’ ’year’:

my $d_birth = $person->date_of_birth();

place_of_birth()

Returns a name of place of the birth

my $place = $person->place_of_birth();

photo()

Return a path to the person’s photo

my $photo = $person->photo();

filmography()

Returns a person’s filmography as a hash of arrays with following structure:

my $fg = $person->filmography();
__DATA__
$fg = {
'Section' => [
{ title => 'movie title',
role => 'person role',
year => 'year of movie production',
code => 'IMDB code of movie',
}
];
}

The section can be In Development, Actor, Self, Thanks, Archive Footage, Producer etc.

genres()

Retrieve a list of movie genres for specified person:

my $genres = $persons->genres;

plot_keywords()

Retrieve a list of keywords for movies where specified person plays:

my $keywords = $persons->plot_keywords;

EXPORTS

No Matches.=head1 BUGS

Please, send me any found bugs by email: stepanov DOT michael AT gmail DOT com.

SEE ALSO

IMDB::Film IMDB::BaseClass WWW::Yahoo::Movies HTML::TokeParser

AUTHOR

Mikhail Stepanov AKA nite_man (stepanov DOT michael AT gmail DOT com)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2004 - 2007, Mikhail Stepanov. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.