uhmmm if i can just have an ideia it would be great
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Browse All TopicsIm developing a tool for my video store and i want to retrieve cast , plot info , year , genre , votes , title , writen and directed by from a imdb url like : http://www.imdb.com/title/
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OK, here's something to get you started. I used a component called extIEParser, available from the
Delphi-WebBrowser Yahoo group Files section, not sure if you have to be a member to download it
but if you aren't let me know via email and I'll send it to you.
The edit is the title to search for, I am the catcher in the oil field scene in "The Rookie", BTW.
Enter the title, click GO and then in the listbox, click the one you want to view.
Now I'm leaving the parsing of the results to you. I have an example where I modify the
'(more)' to 'Plot Summary' so you can see how to do it. If you have any more questions, let me know
and good luck...
DFM:
object Form1: TForm1
Left = 316
Top = 143
Width = 870
Height = 640
Caption = 'Form1'
Color = clBtnFace
Font.Charset = DEFAULT_CHARSET
Font.Color = clWindowText
Font.Height = -11
Font.Name = 'MS Sans Serif'
Font.Style = []
OldCreateOrder = False
OnCreate = FormCreate
OnDestroy = FormDestroy
PixelsPerInch = 96
TextHeight = 13
object ListBox1: TListBox
Left = 0
Top = 41
Width = 288
Height = 572
Align = alLeft
ItemHeight = 13
TabOrder = 0
OnClick = ListBox1Click
OnMouseMove = ListBox1MouseMove
end
object Panel1: TPanel
Left = 0
Top = 0
Width = 862
Height = 41
Align = alTop
BevelOuter = bvNone
TabOrder = 1
object Edit1: TEdit
Left = 16
Top = 10
Width = 201
Height = 21
TabOrder = 0
Text = 'The Rookie'
end
object Button1: TButton
Left = 232
Top = 8
Width = 75
Height = 25
Caption = 'GO'
Default = True
TabOrder = 1
OnClick = Button1Click
end
end
object Panel2: TPanel
Left = 288
Top = 41
Width = 574
Height = 572
Align = alClient
BevelInner = bvRaised
BevelOuter = bvLowered
Caption = 'Panel2'
TabOrder = 2
object WebBrowser1: TWebBrowser
Left = 2
Top = 2
Width = 570
Height = 568
Align = alClient
TabOrder = 0
ControlData = {
4C000000E93A0000B43A000000
000000004C0000000000000000
2B2E126208000000000000004C
80000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000100000000
end
end
object IdHTTP1: TIdHTTP
MaxLineAction = maException
AllowCookies = True
ProxyParams.BasicAuthentic
ProxyParams.ProxyPort = 0
Request.ContentLength = -1
Request.ContentRangeEnd = 0
Request.ContentRangeStart = 0
Request.Accept = 'text/html, */*'
Request.BasicAuthenticatio
Request.UserAgent =
'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.' +
'4322)'
HTTPOptions = [hoForceEncodeParams]
Left = 776
Top = 8
end
object extIEParser1: TextIEParser
DownloadOnly = False
DownloadOptions = [DLCTL_DOWNLOADONLY, DLCTL_NO_FRAMEDOWNLOAD, DLCTL_RESYNCHRONIZE, DLCTL_PRAGMA_NO_CACHE, DLCTL_NO_BEHAVIORS, DLCTL_OFFLINE]
parseNoFrames = False
OnAnchor = extIEParser1Anchor
Left = 816
Top = 8
end
end
PAS:
unit Unit1;
interface
uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
Dialogs, StdCtrls, IdBaseComponent, IdComponent, IdTCPConnection,
IdTCPClient, IdHTTP, OleCtrls, SHDocVw, extIEParser, ExtCtrls,Clipbrd ;
type
TForm1 = class(TForm)
IdHTTP1: TIdHTTP;
extIEParser1: TextIEParser;
ListBox1: TListBox;
Panel1: TPanel;
Edit1: TEdit;
Button1: TButton;
Panel2: TPanel;
WebBrowser1: TWebBrowser;
procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
procedure extIEParser1Anchor(Sender:
urn, Methods, name, host, hostname, pathname, port, protocol, search,
hash, accesskey, protocolLong, mimeType, nameProp: String;
Element: TElementInfo);
procedure FormDestroy(Sender: TObject);
procedure FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
procedure ListBox1Click(Sender: TObject);
procedure ListBox1MouseMove(Sender: TObject; Shift: TShiftState; X,
Y: Integer);
private
{ Private declarations }
public
{ Public declarations }
slAnchorHrefs: TStringList;
end;
var
Form1: TForm1;
implementation
uses Unit2;
{$R *.dfm}
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender
var
src: TStringStream;
x: Integer;
begin
ListBox1.Items.Clear;
src := TStringStream.Create('');
WebBrowser1.Navigate('http
extIEParser1.Url := 'http://www.imdb.com/Tsear
extIEParser1.Execute;
for x := 0 to ListBox1.Items.Count-1 do
if Pos(Edit1.Text, ListBox1.Items.Names[x]) > 0 then
ShowMessage(ListBox1.Items
end;
procedure TForm1.extIEParser1Anchor(
rev, urn, Methods, name, host, hostname, pathname, port, protocol,
search, hash, accesskey, protocolLong, mimeType, nameProp: String;
Element: TElementInfo);
var
LinkText: String;
begin
if Trim(Element.outerText) = '' then
LinkText := 'Unassigned'
else
LinkText := Element.outerText;
if LinkText <> 'Unassigned' then
begin
if (LinkText = '(more)') and (Pos('plotsummary', href)> 0) then
LinkText := 'Plot Summary';
slAnchorHrefs.Add(href);
ListBox1.Items.Add(LinkTex
end;
end;
procedure TForm1.FormDestroy(Sender:
begin
slAnchorHrefs.Free;
end;
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
slAnchorHrefs := TStringList.Create;
end;
procedure TForm1.ListBox1Click(Sende
begin
WebBrowser1.Navigate(slAnc
extIEParser1.Url := slAnchorHrefs[ListBox1.Ite
slAnchorHrefs.Clear;
ListBox1.Items.Clear;
extIEParser1.Execute;
end;
procedure TForm1.ListBox1MouseMove(S
Y: Integer);
var
APoint : TPoint ;
Index : Integer ;
HW : THintWindow ;
Rec : TRect ;
sHint : String ;
begin
APoint.X := X;
APoint.Y := Y;
Index := ListBox1.ItemAtPos(APoint,
if Index >= 0 then
begin
HW := THintWindow.Create(nil);
try
GetCursorPos(APoint);
sHint := slAnchorHrefs[Index];
Rec.Top := APoint.Y + 20 ;
Rec.Left := APoint.X ;
Rec.Right := Rec.Left +
HW.Canvas.TextWidth(sHint)
Rec.Bottom := Rec.Top +
HW.Canvas.TextHeight(sHint
HW.ActivateHint(Rec,sHint)
HW.Refresh ;
Sleep(400);
HW.ReleaseHandle ;
finally
HW.Free ;
end;
end;
end;
end.
GO to http://groups.yahoo.com/gr
Like I said, I'm not sure if you have to be a member to download it
but if you aren't let me know via email and I'll send it to you.
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by: EddieShipmanPosted on 2003-11-12 at 20:34:06ID: 9737191
You are asking a lot. It will take some time to parse the results from imdb pages
because they don't use a standardized format. Their html is junk. They use tables
for layout instead of CSS. I can do it for you but it will take some time or I can start you
off and you can work on the parsing yourself.