NAME

IMDB::Persons - Perl extension for retrieving movies persons from IMDB.com

SYNOPSIS

  	use IMDB::Persons;

	#
	# Retrieve a person information by IMDB code
	#
	my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => '0000129');

	or 

	#
	# Retrieve a person information by name
	#
  	my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => 'Tom Cruise');

	or 

	#
	# Process already stored HTML page from IMDB
	#
	my $person = new IMDB::Persons(file => 'imdb.html');

	if($person->status) {
		print "Name: ".$person->name."\n";
		print "Birth Date: ".$person->date_of_birth."\n";
	} else {
		print "Something wrong: ".$person->error."!\n";
	}

DESCRIPTION

IMDB::Persons allows to retrieve an information about IMDB persons (actors, actresses, directors etc): full name, photo, date and place of birth, mini bio and filmography.

Object Private Methods

_init()

Initialize a new object.

_search_person()

Implements a logic to search IMDB persons by their names.

Object Public Methods

name()

Retrieve a person full name

my $person_name = $person->name();

mini_bio()

Returns a mini bio for specified IMDB person

my $mini_bio = $person->mini_bio();

date_of_birth()

Returns a date of birth of IMDB person in format 'day' 'month caption' 'year':

my $d_birth = $person->date_of_birth();

place_of_birth()

Returns a name of place of the birth

my $place = $person->place_of_birth();

photo()

Return a path to the person's photo

my $photo = $person->photo();

filmography()

Returns a person's filmography as a hash of arrays with following structure:

my $fg = $person->filmography();

__DATA__
$fg = {
	'Section' => [
		{ 	title 	=> 'movie title', 
			role 	=> 'person role', 
			year 	=> 'year of movie production',
			code	=> 'IMDB code of movie',	
		}
	];
}

The section can be In Development, Actor, Self, Thanks, Archive Footage, Producer etc.

genres()

Retrieve a list of movie genres for specified person:

my $genres = $persons->genres;

plot_keywords()

Retrieve a list of keywords for movies where specified person plays:

my $keywords = $persons->plot_keywords;

EXPORTS

Nothing

BUGS

Please, send me any found bugs by email: stepanov.michael@gmail.com.

SEE ALSO

IMDB::Film IMDB::BaseClass WWW::Yahoo::Movies HTML::TokeParser

AUTHOR

Mikhail Stepanov AKA nite_man (stepanov.michael@gmail.com)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2004 - 2007, Mikhail Stepanov. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.