man IMDB::Persons () - Perl extension for retrieving movies persons from IMDB.com

NAME

IMDB::Persons - Perl extension for retrieving movies persons from IMDB.com

SYNOPSIS

        use IMDB::Persons;


        #
        # Retrieve a person information by IMDB code
        #
        my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => '0000129');


        or


        #
        # Retrieve a person information by name
        #
        my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => 'Tom Cruise');


        or


        #
        # Process already stored HTML page from IMDB
        #
        my $person = new IMDB::Persons(file => 'imdb.html');


        if($person->status) {
                print "Name: ".$person->name."\n";
                print "Birth Date: ".$person->date_of_birth."\n";
        } else {
                print "Something wrong: ".$person->error."!\n";
        }

DESCRIPTION

IMDB::Persons allows to retrieve an information about IMDB persons (actors, actresses, directors etc): full name, photo, date and place of birth, mini bio and filmography.

Object Private Methods

_init()
Initialize a new object.
_search_person()
Implements a logic to search IMDB persons by their names.

Object Public Methods

name()
Retrieve a person full name 
        my $person_name = $person->name();
mini_bio()
Returns a mini bio for specified IMDB person 
        my $mini_bio = $person->mini_bio();
date_of_birth()
Returns a date of birth of IMDB person in format 'day' 'month caption' 'year': 
        my $d_birth = $person->date_of_birth();
place_of_birth()
Returns a name of place of the birth 
        my $place = $person->place_of_birth();
photo()
Return a path to the person's photo 
        my $photo = $person->photo();
filmography()
Returns a person's filmography as array of hashes with a following structure: 
        my $fg = $person->filmography();

        __DATA__
        $fg = [
                {       title   => 'movie title', 
                        role    => 'person role', 
                        year    => 'year of movie production',
                        code    => 'IMDB code of movie',        
                }
        ];

EXPORTS

Nothing

BUGS

Please, send me any found bugs by email: stepanov.michael@gmail.com.

SEE ALSO

IMDB::Film IMDB::BaseClass WWW::Yahoo::Movies HTML::TokeParser

AUTHOR

Mikhail Stepanov (stepanov.michael@gmail.com)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2004 - 2005, Mikhail Stepanov. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.