In continuation to my previous posts on PHP and ASP.NET IMDb Scraping API’s, I have designed one more movie information scraping API for RottenTomatoes.com. Rotten Tomatoes is one of the most popular movie review website which provides a comprehensive movie rating system involving critics from all the popular news networks.
This API includes scraping of lot of attributes from Rotten Tomatoes along with the functionality of scraping newly released DVD list. You can extend the PHP code on your own to include more functionality or drop a comment here and I’ll try to help you as much as I can.
Here is a list of all the attributes it scraps from Rotten Tomatoes page:
- TITLE
- YEAR
- POSTER
- ALL_CRITICS_PERCENTAGE
- ALL_CRITICS_AVERAGE_RATING
- ALL_CRITICS_COUNT
- USER_PERCENTAGE
- USER_AVERAGE_RATING
- USER_COUNT
- GENRES
- SYNOPSIS
- MPAA_RATING
- RUNTIME
- RELEASE_DATE
- BOX_OFFICE
- DIRECTORS
- WRITERS
- CAST
- REVIEWS
How to use this API:
Include the class file on your php page
include("rottentomatoes.php");
Instantiate the class and get the results in an array:
$rottentomatoes = new RottenTomatoes();
$movieArray = $rottentomatoes->getMovieInfo("Inception");
How to get the New DVD Release list:
$rottentomatoes = new RottenTomatoes();
$dvdArray = $rottentomatoes->getNewDvdReleases();
You can try this scraper on my lab page: http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/rottentomatoes/
Download PHP Source Code: http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/rottentomatoes/rottentomatoes2.htm
Example usage: http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/rottentomatoes/usage.txt
If you need some more additions or corrections to this API, please drop a comment here and I’ll try to include it asap.
