Need to do this: Look up a movie on IMDB, extract director, actors, runtime, language

[PremiumG]

What programming language should I look up/start with to do this?

Look up a movie name in IMDB, extract director, actors, runtime, language, and studio.

I've done light programming with C and Java in my college years but it's been a while. Should I just suck it up and do it manually for the 200+ movies I have to do? Or would it be worth my while to learn a script or try to program it?

 

[drebo]

If IMDB has an API for this, definitely write a script for it. If they don't, then do it manually.

 

[Crusty]

If you're going to be crawling their site for the data your best bet would be something like perl, python or ruby. All of them have API's for making web requests and I'm sure you can find some API's to help with the actual HTML parsing. If you're good with regex's then you could probably do this in a few lines of bash scripting as well.

If they have any sort of API it'll be XML via a webservices standard like SOAP or REST in which cause it's super simple

 

[tfinch2]

http://stephenbeckeriv.com/main/index/imdb_api