Cinema Plugin v7.3 - now with Google Movies!

[McBainUK]

I'm planning on re-vamping the plugin (both behind the scenes and user interface wise) and reducing the showtimes sources to just the one, Google Movies.

This is an international site and doing a bit of research it looks like Google Movies covers quite a few countries. I would request that (in as many countries as possible) try this out and see if it works in your country, and works well.

As always, comments and suggestions welcome

[scb147]

The version on the wiki is listed as V7.3, but it downloads V7.2...

[McBainUK]

Try downloading again.

[scb147]

Updated link works...

I have attached my logs for my first run, along with my generated XML files.

I am not downloading trailers ATM, or info from imdb.

I am not getting any film information though, just the film times. I'm thinking this is possibly because that is all Google gives you, and IMDB is needed to get the rest.

My movie theatre IDs are:
near=15825&tid=a2d838740a2a2c48
near=15825&tid=5792d72cb294460c

[McBainUK]

I have attached my logs for my first run, along with my generated XML files.

Thanks for the zip file - it had contains all the files I need

I am not getting any film information though, just the film times.

In this trial release all the film info is shown on the Synopsis page of the film info popup (below the film title), it doesn't split it up over the Info/Cast pages. This will most likely be re-deisgned in a Google only version (and more use made of IMDB).

[scb147]

In this trial release all the film info is shown on the Synopsis page of the film info popup (below the film title), it doesn't split it up over the Info/Cast pages. This will most likely be re-deisgned in a Google only version (and more use made of IMDB).

OK. Looks like the synopsis field is getting filled in.

Should I be getting posters? If I check the "Use IMDB..." checkbox, should that be working?

I tried downloading trailers, but I am getting time out errors at the moment. So that's probably my connection.

[McBainUK]

I'm thinking this is possibly because that is all Google gives you, and IMDB is needed to get the rest.

Google gives you a bit, example: Bride Wars: "1hr 30min‎‎ - Rated PG‎‎ - Comedy"

It also has a star-based review summary (which maybe scrape-able in future)

[McBainUK]

Should I be getting posters? If I check the "Use IMDB..." checkbox, should that be working?

I don't see why not, nothing else has changed. At the moment Google Movies just acts like any other source.

[scb147]

I don't see why not, nothing else has changed. At the moment Google Movies just acts like any other source.

Hmmm, I am getting this for the posters:

Code:

01/27/2009 11:20:49 AM    IMDB Grabber - Found film: 'Bride Wars'
01/27/2009 11:20:49 AM    Attempting to fill film details gaps for film: 'Bride Wars'
01/27/2009 11:20:49 AM    Downloading image ''
01/27/2009 11:20:49 AM    Download failed! Invalid URI: The URI is empty.

[McBainUK]

Will look into it.