InTheaters plugin via XScript - Discontinued

by **tswhite70** on Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:03 pm

Updated...
Fixed the showtime regexes - they were dropping some showtimes in certain situations.
Added some error handling when downloading URL's from movietickets.com - @#$@# ads!

v2.2 06/03/2006
Steven’s Simplicity Default skin files & script:
http://home.houston.rr.com/rswhite/inth ... eaters.zip
(No changes were made to the skin files, so if you already have them you can just download the script.)

InTheaters_GetMovies script only:
http://home.houston.rr.com/rswhite/inth ... movies.zip

good luck,
tsw

by **tswhite70** on Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:11 pm

epitaph - Thanks for kudos! With regard to not downloading except in the event of a change, it would be tough to do and probably wouldn't speed things up very much. I still have to get the movie info URL from movietickets.com and then parse the showtimes (which is the slow part). The other movie information goes pretty quickly. Stills do take a little time as I search movies.com and download the media URL from there, but I don't redownload any stills that already exist.

good luck,
tsw

by **epitaph** on Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:36 am

No problem, i figured it would be a pain and what not. but dont get me wrong im not complaining, this is a excellent plugin, i use it every friday

by **Marbles_00** on Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:27 pm

tswhite,

I'm not sure if it is just me, but it would appear that the ratings system does not work anymore (since going to movietickets.com). My text line is the following:
Rating: %Xintheaters>rating%

Genre, runtime, stills, plot, coverart all still work, only ratings.

Small, minute problem, as ratings are usually subjective to the viewer. :wink:

by **epitaph** on Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:33 am

is this hard to write? i was wanting somthing similar but to grab new dvd rentals from http://www.rogersvideo.ca/newreleases/newreleases.asp which is my movie store.

by **tswhite70** on Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:20 pm

Marbles_00 - Ratings are still working (at least for me)...

Edit: Canadian heh? I forgot :wink:

, for some reason movietickets.com doesn't show ratings on the movie info pages if you have the "version" set for Canadian English!

I just sent customer service at movietickets.com the following (http://www.movietickets.com/cs.asp), you should send them something similar. I'm guessing they just left the code off that version of the page:

The website does not show movie ratings on the movie info pages (Canadian English). It shows it on the theater movie listing page, but when you click on a movie there is no rating listed! Can ya'll please add the rating to the movie info pages so I don't have to keep clicking back and forth to see the rating?!

good luck,
tsw

by **tswhite70** on Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:23 pm

epitaph - It definitely took some work, but in general it was just time consuming. See if you can write a direct spider for the site (see the Spider thread in Tips&Tricks). If the site is "spiderable" then you may be able to modify my code (or write your own) to get the info you want...

good luck,
tsw

by **Marbles_00** on Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:53 pm

Thanks tswhite for looking into this and letting me know what's up. I forwarded them the request too, hopefully that will do it.

by **tswhite70** on Sat Jul 01, 2006 8:52 pm

Updated...
Fixed the showtime regexes - when a movie has a theater but no showtimes the script would error.
Looks like movies.com changed the html on the multimedia page where the script gets stills - fixed.

v2.3 07/01/2006
Steven’s Simplicity Default skin files & script:
http://home.houston.rr.com/rswhite/inth ... eaters.zip
(No changes were made to the skin files, so if you already have them you can just download the script.)

InTheaters_GetMovies script only:
http://home.houston.rr.com/rswhite/inth ... movies.zip

good luck,
tsw

by **hvs69** on Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:34 am

I cannot see the stills anymore ?

It is enabled in the script. Any Ideas ?

by **tswhite70** on Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:42 am

Are you using v2.3 released yesterday? See post above yours...

tsw

by **hvs69** on Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:59 pm

tswhite70 wrote:Are you using v2.3 released yesterday? See post above yours...

tsw

Thanks. Somehow I missed your post. I will try ver 2.3

by **Marbles_00** on Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:41 pm

tswhite,

Sorry to bother you. I haven't used the script for a while, but now I've been setting it up in a new skin and I've noticed the same thing as hsv69, who posted the same problem in July. I can't get stills to show either. Not all the movies have them downloaded, but for the ones that do, they don't show. I have script version 2.3 (dated 7/1/2006), stills are enabled in the script and my text line is:

Code: Select all: category>Xintheaters>stills

Has somthing changed?

Thanks in advance.

*EDIT* Reading over your previous post, I would take it that movies.com ended up changing around their HTML yet again...breaking the link for stills.

by **hvs69** on Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:11 pm

I can confirm that the stills do not work anymore on the new downloads.

by **tswhite70** on Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:43 pm

I'll check tonight - it was working this weekend, but I can't remember exactly when I ran my last refresh.

I've been working on the next big version change, progress has just been slow. It is still probably a month away from release but the highlights for the new version are:

I'll try and update the current version tonight to fix the stills...

tsw