ImdbCelebrity - A new rubygem for parsing celebritydata from www.imdb.com

Last week I was working on my scrapper for getting Imdb Celebrity data for some specific purpose. Then, I searched for some available plugin or gem for the same. More surprisingly I was not able to find something what I’m looking for. Then, one idea stuck in my mind, why not create one of my own. Then I started working on this small rubygem named “imdb_celebrity”. You can see the public repository of the gem on github imdb celebrity. Also gem is hosted on Gemcutter as well.

Imdb_celebrity is a ruby-gem which is used for scrapping celebrity pages from 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.