chareos Wrote:"Ronin"
found as "i Goonies"
Now I'm nostalgic... damn Goonies...
Ok let's talk about how the search work, there are some facts i'd like to discuss with you guys:
1. The direct search on the movieplayer site is not possible because it uses a kind of cripted code, this is hte link that look for "Ronin":
http://www.movieplayer.it/ricerca/cm9uaW4=/1/
even looking at the html i don't understand how it work really.
2. So I'm using a Google custom search the web for every page starting with:
http://www.movieplayer.it/film/*/*/
because every movie on mp.it have a main page like (eg for Ronin)
http://www.movieplayer.it/film/664/ronin/
3. The problems start with the secondary links of each movie:
http://www.movieplayer.it/film/*/*/gallery-e-trailer/
http://www.movieplayer.it/film/*/*/homevideo/
http://www.movieplayer.it/film/*/*/in-sala/
http://www.movieplayer.it/film/*/*/rassegna-stampa/
http://www.movieplayer.it/film/*/*/suggerimenti/
http://www.movieplayer.it/film/*/*/statistiche/
http://www.movieplayer.it/film/*/*/extra/
http://www.movieplayer.it/film/*/*/articoli/
http://www.movieplayer.it/film/*/*/cast/
if i retreive these links too i will have as search result in xbmc 10 entities with the same name that point to the same link, so I decided to exclude most of them from the search, leaving just the "in-sala" one that is the most occurrent
4. the last fact is that Google doesn't find all the movies just with the main link, but it does with the secondary links.
So my conclusions are:
1. xbmc developers make a changes in the xbmc code to automatically exclude the doubled results, so I can use the secondary links as source too (best solution IMO)
2. enable some more secondary links and accepting that it will cause some multiple same results
3. My last solution, don't use movieplayer.it and switch over to mymovies.it if it gives back more accurated results, I could ask Muttley to help him developing his scraper, but before this I'd like to know if mymovies is really more reliable than mp.it
Let me know what you think or send me a PM if you wish to talk in italian.
Cheers