Entries from April 2007

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Scraping IMDB with Ruby and Hpricot

One service that cries for a nice web service interface is IMDB, however they like want $$ or something for it…the nerve!
With just a few lines of ruby we can query to our heart’s content. In this post I’ll go over how to create a very simple class for extracting information about movies from IMDB [...]