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imdb-tools package

imdb-get doesn't work at all

Bug #313260 reported by Christoph Langner
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imdb-tools (Debian)
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imdb-tools (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: imdb-tools

It looks like imdb-get doesn't work at all... When you start a search

$ imdb-get -s Hook
Select a Film:

you don't get any results. I installed imdb-tools out of Ubuntu's repositories

$ imdb-get -v
IMDB Tools Version 0.7

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KoosKakebeen (peet-badenhorst) wrote :

Can confirm

Traced to imdb-get line 219.
Incorrect parsing of HTML returned by recent changes to IMDB site

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KoosKakebeen (peet-badenhorst) wrote :

and here is the patch file that fixes it.
Takes into consideration new 'onclick' attribute as well as removes empty options associated with image thumbnails.

Hope this helps :-)

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I've recreated this bug report using imdb-tools version 0.7-1 in Jaunty Jackalope. I also created a test version of the package with the attached patch and confirm that the patch does in fact work.

Changed in imdb-tools:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :
Changed in imdb-tools:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)
Changed in imdb-tools:
assignee: nobody → andreas-wenning
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package imdb-tools - 0.7-1ubuntu1

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imdb-tools (0.7-1ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Update HTML parsing for recent changes to IMDB (Closes: #519603, LP: #313260)
    Thanks to KoosKakebeen for the original patch

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:34:33 -0700

Changed in imdb-tools:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning) wrote :

Uploaded! Thank you for your contribution to Ubuntu.

Changed in imdb-tools:
status: Fix Released → Fix Committed
Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)
Changed in imdb-tools:
assignee: andreas-wenning → nobody
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in imdb-tools (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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