This API uses Google Map Api to display map and geotag the IP Address. You will have to sign up for Google Map API if you haven't already done for your domain.
For demo and more information on how to use this API, please visit my lab page at:
http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/ipmapper/
Please drop a comment below if you like this API or have any modifications or improvements.
As an enhancement to the YouTube Popup player tool I built almost 2 years back, I have created a jQuery plugin to display YouTube videos in a popup dialog box. This plugin embeds YouTube video using the latest iFrame code which features both Flash and HTML5 players. To display the popup dialog box I have used the jQuery UI Dialog Widget which provides a robust cross-browser dialog box with title bar and supports a movable box with modal behavior. You can even customize the jQuery UI Dialog Widget theme to suit the color and style of you website.
This is a very easy to use plugin and is flexible enough to be used on any DOM element which supports the JavaScript onclick event. You will just need to include the YouTube Video Id in any of the DOM element attributes (default: rel) and initialize it in the plugin options (if other than rel). You can even provide a Title to the popup dialog box by defining it in the element’s title attribute or plugin options.
This plugin offers many configuration options for the dialog box and YouTube video player. You can find more detailed information for configuration and setup on the demo/documentation page.
For complete demo, documentation and download visit my lab page
http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/jquery_youtube/
Please drop me a word in the comments below if you have any modification/enhancements/bug fixes or any new feature to be added to this plugin.
UPDATE v2.3, Date: Feb 26, 2013:
The biggest change in this version is that now you don't need to have the YouTube Id to embed the video links. You can now have regular YouTube URLs in the href attribute and don't need to assign the id in a separate attribute for links. If you want to use other DOM elements like images or buttons, you will still need the Id. This version is backward compatible with the old versions.
Also added a new configuration option:
UPDATE v2.2, Date: Aug 30, 2012: Removed some deprecated parameters from the options list
UPDATE v2.1, Date: May 23, 2012: Added 1 new configuration option:
UPDATE v2.0, Date: Oct 20, 2011: Added 3 new configuration options:
First things first, kudos to John O'Nolan for jQuery Nivo Slider. Great stuff! I was trying to use this slider on my website and wanted to use CSS3 round corners. Unfortunately I was not able to use round corners on the outer div because of the multiple slides overlapping over it. I tried many ways of achieving this using CSS but couldn’t find an optimal way to do it. Finally I modified the Nivo Sliders JavaScript library to include round corners without modifying the CSS file. I added a new option (borderRadius) which can be defined when the slider is initialized.
How to download and use this modified library:
Example usage:
$(window).load(function() {
$('#slider').nivoSlider({ borderRadius: 20 });
});
Thanks once again to John for this awesome script. Keep up the good work.
Let me know if you find any bugs in the script and I’ll try to address them asap.
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:
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.
In extension to my previous IMDb Scraping API in PHP, I have converted the code to ASP.net/C# based IMDb scraper. In my de facto development style, I have kept the code pretty simple and concise. For more details on the movie information it scraps, please refer to my previous post. I don’t have an IIS server running to demonstrate the code but it is functionally similar to my PHP Scraper API so you can test it on the link below. And above all... it’s FREE!!!
Test the Scraper API: http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/imdb/
Download C# Class file: http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/imdb/imdb_asp_csharp.htm
(Add this class file to your project and rename the namespace accordingly)
To convert this C# code to VB.net use this tool: http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/csharp-to-vb/
Fork it on GitHub: https://github.com/abhinayrathore/ASP.NET-IMDb-Scraper
Download DLL file: http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/imdb/IMDb.dll
(Copy this DLL file to your project folder and add it to the project references)
How to use this class:
It’s been a while since I worked on ASP.net, so if you have any improvements or suggestions, do let me know :)
IMDb is undoubtedly the leading information source for media information and is the top target of web scraping for movie lovers around the world. Unfortunately IMDb does not provide an API to access its database so web scraping is the only resort for us. PHP being one of the most commonly used and powerful web development language enables easy web scraping with the power of PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions).
For my recent project on a Movie Catalog (http://movies.abhinayrathore.com), I needed a IMDb scraper and found one built by Tyler Hall. His version was not robust enough to scrap all kind of movie pages so I extended it and made it more robust to support different type of titles, BUT recently IMDb changed its page template and most of the old scrapers stopped working including mine. So, I modified my scraper to accommodate the new template changes and considered it as my moral responsibility to contribute back to the developer community.
This new scraper is very robust and capable enough to handle a wide variety of new template modifications. Apart from the regular information it even goes deep to scan extra media images and release dates.
Last Updated: Feb 1, 2014
Major changes in Feb 20, 2013 version:
Here is a list of all the attributes it scraps from the IMDb page:
How to use this PHP Scraper?
Include the class file on your php page
include("imdb.php");
Instantiate the class and get the results in an array:
$imdb = new Imdb();
$movieArray = $imdb->getMovieInfo("The Godfather");
You can try this scraper on my lab page: http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/imdb/
To download the PHP Source Code directly use this link: http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/imdb/imdb_php.htm
Fork it on GitHub: https://github.com/abhinayrathore/PHP-IMDb-Scraper
Example usage: http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/imdb/usage.htm
Proxy script for downloading or displaying Media images on your website: http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/imdb/imdbImage.txt
To implement you own IMDb Web Service API to return data in XML, JSON or JSONP format, use this script along with the API: http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/imdb/imdbWebService.htm
To implement IMDb.com's search suggestions on your website, please follow this post: http://web3o.blogspot.com/2011/10/imdb-search-suggestions-with-jquery.html
If you find any part of this scraper broken or incorrect, please drop a comment here and I’ll try to fix it as soon as possible.
IMDb has a leechers policy in place for media images. You may not be able to use the URL for some of the images to display on your website. As a workaround you can use a PHP Proxy to display or download those images. I’ve written a small proxy script to grab the images: http://lab.abhinayrathore.com/imdb/imdbImage.txt. To use this script you just need to pass the image URL as a request parameter:
<img src="imdbImage.php?url=<?=$url?>" />
NOTE: For users outside of USA
IMDb will automatically redirect you to titles listed in the language used for release in your country (Read more).
To see films listed under their original titles regardless of your country region you will have to modify this script to scrap the titles from http://akas.imdb.com because http://www.imdb.com will automatically redirect you to your country specific title page.
Happy Scraping :)
In extension to my previous post on Dynamically Movable and Resizable Circle Overlay, I created yet another nifty tool to dynamically draw a polygon overlay on Google Maps. You won’t find another robust tool like this for Polygon drawing on the internet. Users can draw polygon dynamically by adding, deleting and moving the polygon boundary nodes. User can press shift+click on the map to add a new node to polygon boundary or they can press ctrl+click on any node marker to remove it. The node markers can be dragged around to resize the polygon.
This is how it looks like in action: 
The JavaScript code is pretty easy to modify for your custom needs. The initialize() function is used to initialize the Google Map object when the page loads. A click event is also added to the map for adding node markers on the map. The click event takes care of the case when the user click on the previous markers while holding the shift key. When the user clicks on the map, addMarker() function is called to add another boundary node to the polygon. For every newly added marker, drag events are assigned for resizing the polygon and a click event is assigned to delete the node when ctrl key is pressed while clicking the marker pin. The fitPolygon() function is used to set map bounds and center to adjust the polygon inside it.
Put the following JavaScript code in the head section of your page:
To initialize the map you can call the functions on page load event and include a div tag inside your body to hold the Map.
<body onload="initialize()" onunload="GUnload()">Feel free to modify and use this code on your website. I have used API v2 for my code but you can easily modify this code for API v3. Happy Mapping!
