Movie Identification

Introduction

No doubt there is requests for movie identification service - with submitting moviehash you can get IMDBID with some details. OpenSubtitles? database was designed to support this, but only with uploaded subtitles (that means, somebody upload subtitles with moviehash and according that we can get IMDBID). Now we support "full" movie identification, that means you can insert to database moviehashes without subtitles. It can be used in media players, scripts, etc...you can read more about this in ​forum

Work flow

• Recursive scan movie folder, try to extract imdbid from *.nfo files
• LogIn() first (anonymous user is OK)
• For movies with detected imdbid call InsertMovieHash()
• For movies with no imdbid call XMLRPC or XMLRPC
  • CheckMovieHash2 can return more imdbid matches per movie, when user selects one, call InsertMovieHash()
  • If you get no results, you can call SearchMoviesOnIMDB(), after user selects right movie call InsertMovieHash()

pretty simple, isn't it ? :)

How to extract imdbid from *.nfo files

• First read about common structure of video files
• Scan for one *.nfo file in firectory, extract IMDBID using this regexp:

  /imdb\.[^\/]+\/title\/tt(\d+)/i
  

You find imdbid in $1. Common links are:

• ​http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783233/
• ​http://imdb.com/title/tt0426931/
• ​http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/

Notes

There should be nice, if your application supports RAR archives.