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FilmAffinity Gem

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Description

The filmaffinity gem allows you to easily access publicly available data from Filmaffinity.com in english and spanish.

It is also available as RESTful API at heroku.

Features

  • Search movies by title
  • Retrieve complete movie info
  • Retrieve the Top N of filmaffinity.com
  • Retrieve the Top N with the given options

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'filmaffinity'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install filmaffinity

Documentation

FilmAffinity configuration

FilmAffinity offers some configuration options, which you can configure globally before your requests. You could include an imgur_id to upload the posters on Imgur and avoid forbidden hotlinking from filmaffinity. You can also change the language,which is english by default.

FilmAffinity.configure do |config|
  config.imgur_id = 'Your-imgur-client-id'
  config.language = 'ES'
end
FilmAffinity::Search

Returns an array of FilmAffinity::Movie, containing preload ID and title.

FilmAffinity::Movie

Includes some methods to retrieve the complete movie info.

FilmAffinity::Top options

The options hash accepts several parameters:

{
  :genre => 'AC',
  :country => 'DE',
  :from_year => 2014,
  :to_year => 2016,
  :no_doc => true,
  :no_tv => true
}
:genre
  • 'AC' Action
  • 'AV' Adventure
  • 'AN' Animation
  • 'CO' Comedy
  • 'DO' Documentary
  • 'DR' Drama
  • 'FAN' Fantasy
  • 'F-N' Film-Noir
  • 'TE' Horror
  • 'INF' Kids
  • 'MU' Musical
  • 'INT' Mystery
  • 'RO' Romance
  • 'C-F' Sci-Fi
  • 'TH' Thriller
  • 'TV_SE' TV Series
  • 'DESC' Unknown
  • 'BE' War
  • 'WE' Western
:country

2-letter code supplied by the ISO

:no_doc

true to avoid documentaries

:no_tv

true to avoid TV series

Examples

Top:

#Top FilmAffinity ever
top = FilmAffinity::Top.new

top.movies
#=> [<FilmAffinity::Movie>
     <FilmAffinity::Movie>
     <FilmAffinity::Movie>
     ...]

top.movies.first
#=> #<FilmAffinity::Movie>

#Top FilmAffinity with options and number of results
options = {
  :genre => 'AN',
  :no_tv => true
}
top = FilmAffinity::Top.new options, 20

top.movies
#=> [<FilmAffinity::Movie>
     <FilmAffinity::Movie>
     <FilmAffinity::Movie>
     ...]

top.movies.first
#=> #<FilmAffinity::Movie>

Search:

search = FilmAffinity::Search.new('Padrino')

search.movies
#=> [<FilmAffinity::Movie>
     <FilmAffinity::Movie>
     <FilmAffinity::Movie>
     ...]

search.movies.first
#=> #<FilmAffinity::Movie>

Movie:

movie = FilmAffinity::Movie.new(809297, 'El Padrino')

movie.director
#=> 'Francis Ford Coppola'

movie.year
#=> 1972

movie.rating
#=> 9.1

movie.cast
#=> ['Marlon Brando',
     'Al Pacino',
     'James Caan',
     'Robert Duvall',
     'Diane Keaton',
     ...]

Contributors

This gem is created and maintained by Oriol Bellido and David Santos

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