NAME

WebService::MoviePosterDB - OO Perl interface to the movie poster database MoviePosterDB.

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
use WebService::MoviePosterDB;
my $ws = WebService::MoviePosterDB->new(api_key => "key", api_secret => "secret", cache => 1, cache_exp => "12h");
my $movie = $ws->search(type => "Movie", imdbid => "tt0114814", width => 300);
print $movie->title(), ": \n\n";
print $movie->page(), "\n\n";
foreach ( @{$movie->posters()} ) {
    print $_->image_location(), "\n";
}
            
          

DESCRIPTION

WebService::MusicBrainz is an object-oriented interface to MoviePosterDB. It can be used to retrieve artwork for IMDB titles.

METHODS

new(%opts)

Constructor.

%opts can contain:

api_key, api_secret

A key and secret are required to use the API. Contact movieposterdb.com for details.

cache

Whether to cache responses. Defaults to true

cache_root

The root dir for the cache. Defaults to tmpdir();

cache_exp

How long to cache responses for. Defaults to "1h"

search(type => "Movie", %args)

Accesses MoviePosterDB and returns a WebService::MoviePosterDB::Movie object.

%args can contain:

type

Controls the type of resource being requested. Currently only supports "Movie".

tconst

IMDB id for the title, e.g. tt0114814

imdbid

Alias for tconst

title

Name of the title

width

Image width for returned artwork

NOTES

The version 1 API, previously used by default, stopped as of 2011-09-27, and credentials are required to access the version 2 API. It is possible to access the version 2 API using test credentials (key, secret = "demo"), and this will be done for legacy applications that try to use the version 1 API. However, this feature is only intended for test purposes: legacy applications should be adapted, and new applications should not use it.

AUTHOR

Christopher Key <cjk32@cam.ac.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Christopher Key <cjk32@cam.ac.uk>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.