IMDb lookup v3

by P. Andreas Schmidt, IVE

Version 8 (April 22, 2024)

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Update:
V3: added a list of previous searches feature. It will add not what you typed in, but the titles you choose from the list, with date and time when. You have to type in *#list#* to see it. This will show automatically as pre-fill, if there is a list. No editing, or clearing is implemented, but the list is kept to the last 10 entries, to keep it non premium. You can change that in block 134. It's ordered last on top (descending).

v2: After the changes in the web page I had to adapt the flow to work again. I took the opportunity to try and add support for series, i.e. it gets their length correctly - and adding the parental guide stuff of the episodes (only first season, and no more than the first 9, if there's more than that).
I'm not sure but it seems (perhaps because of the amount of same requests in short time), the web page code changes, I had to try different things, hopefully now the regexs will work always.
Also adapted the publication date regex to get the series from-to dates.
Unfortunately in order to keep it freemium, the flow is now less readable and more difficult to adapt to your own needs and use cases. Sorry about that.

No-Premium flow
If you're like me and want to check out a few things about a movie on IMDb then this flow might be for you, at least as a base to work out what you need.

It asks you for the name of the movie to lookup on IMDb.
It then gives you a list of movies/series found on the page, with the release year next to it.
After you pick one it then fetches and presents in one look:
Rating
Duration
Plot description (no longer just the first, but all)
All comments from parental guide "s*x and n*dity".
It gives you then the option to either return to the list and pick another, or to search for a different movie/series.
All the data is extracted by regex. Of course in the future if they change the structure of the page (again) this might not work (perfectly) anymore and will have to be adapted.
Feel free to download and adapt to what you need from IMDb or even other pages. If you reupload please refer back to the original.
Open for comments and suggestions.

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