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TMDB-0.04_03
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/ TMDB

NAME

TMDB - Perl wrapper for The MovieDB API

SYNOPSIS

    use TMDB;

    # Initialize
    my $tmdb = TMDB->new( apikey => 'xxxxxxxxxx' );

    # Search
    # =======

    # Search for a movie
    my @results = $tmdb->search->movie('Snatch');
    foreach my $result (@results) {
        printf( "%s:\t%s (%s)\n",
            $result->{id}, $result->{title},
            split( /-/, $result->{release_date}, 1 ) );
    }

    # Search for an actor
    my @results = $tmdb->search->person('Sean Connery');
    foreach my $result (@results) {
        printf( "%s:\t%s\n", $result->{id}, $result->{name} );
    }

    # Movie Data
    # ===========

    # Movie Object
    my $movie = $tmdb->movie( id => '107' );

    # Movie details
    my $movie_title     = $movie->title;
    my $movie_year      = $movie->year;
    my $movie_tagline   = $movie->tagline;
    my $movie_overview  = $movie->overview;
    my @movie_directors = $movie->director;
    my @movie_actors    = $movie->actors;

    printf( "%s (%s)\n%s", $movie_title, $movie_year,
        '=' x length($movie_title) );
    printf( "Tagline: %s\n",     $movie_tagline );
    printf( "Overview: %s\n",    $movie_overview );
    printf( "Directed by: %s\n", join( ',', @movie_directors ) );
    print("\nCast:\n");
    printf( "\t-%s\n", $_ ) for @movie_actors;

    # Person Data
    # ===========

    # Person Object
    my $person = $tmdb->person( id => '1331' );

    # Person Details
    my $person_name   = $person->name;
    my $person_bio    = $person->bio;
    my @person_movies = $person->starred_in;

    printf( "%s\n%s\n%s\n",
        $person_name, '=' x length($person_name), $person_bio );
    print("\nActed in:\n");
    printf( "\t-%s\n", $_ ) for @person_movies;

DESCRIPTION

The MovieDB is a free and open movie database. This module provides a Perl wrapper to The MovieDB API. In order to use this module, you must first get an API key by signing up.

NOTE: TMDB-v0.04 and higher uses TheMoviDB API version /3. This brings some significant differences both to the API and the interface this module provides, along with updated dependencies for this distribution. If you like to continue to use v2.1 API, you can continue to use TMDB-0.03x.

INITIALIZATION

        # Initialize
        my $tmdb = TMDB->new(
            apikey => 'xxxxxxxxxx...',  # API Key
            lang   => 'en',             # A valid ISO 639-1 (Aplha-2) language code
            client => $http_tiny,       # A valid HTTP::Tiny object
            json   => $json_object,     # A Valid JSON object
        );

The constructor accepts the following options:

apikey

This is your API key

lang

This must be a valid ISO 639-1 (Alpha-2) language code. Note that with /3, the API no longer falls back to an English default.

List of ISO 639-1 codes.

client

You can provide your own HTTP::Client object, otherwise a default one is used.

json

You can provide your own JSON implementation that can decode JSON. This will fall back to using JSON::Any. However, JSON::XS is recommended.

CONFIGURATION

        # Get Config
        my $config = $tmdb->config;
        print Dumper $config->config;   # Get all of it

        # Get the base URL
        my $base_url = $config->img_base_url();

        # Sizes (All are array-refs)
        my $poster_sizes   = $config->img_poster_sizes();
        my $backdrop_sizes = $config->img_backdrop_sizes();
        my $profile_sizes  = $config->img_profile_sizes();

This provides the configuration for the /3 API. See http://help.themoviedb.org/kb/api/configuration for more details.

SEARCH

The following search methods are available.

movie()
        my $search  = $tmdb->search();
        my @results = $search->movie('Avatar');         # Search by Name
        my @results = $search->movie('Snatch (2000)');  # Include a Year for better results
person()
        my $search  = $tmdb->search();
        my @results = $search->person('Brad Pitt');         # Search by Name

Both search methods returns an array (or array-ref in a scalar context) of hash-refs. See Movie Search or People Search for the list of fields/keys returned.

MOVIE

        # Get the movie object
        my $movie = $tmdb->movie( id => '107' );

        # Movie Data (as returned by the API)
        use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper);
        print Dumper $movie->info;
        print Dumper $movie->alternative_titles;
        print Dumper $movie->cast;
        print Dumper $movie->crew;
        print Dumper $movie->images;
        print Dumper $movie->keywords;
        print Dumper $movie->releases;
        print Dumper $movie->trailers;
        print Dumper $movie->translations;

        # Filtered Movie data
        print $movie->title;
        print $movie->year;
        print $movie->tagline;
        print $movie->overview;
        print $movie->description;         # Same as `overview`
        print $movie->genres;
        print $movie->imdb_id;
        print $movie->collection;          # Collection ID
        print $movie->actors;              # Names of Actors
        print $movie->director;            # Names of Directors
        print $movie->producer;            # Names of Producers
        print $movie->executive_producer;  # Names of Executive Producers
        print $movie->writer;              # Names of Writers/Screenplay

        # Images
        print $movie->poster;              # Main Poster
        print $movie->posters;             # list of posters
        print $movie->backdrop;            # Main backdrop
        print $movie->backdrops;           # List of backdrops
        print $movie->trailers_youtube;    # List of Youtube trailers URLs

        # Latest Movie on TMDB
        print Dumper $movie->latest;

PEOPLE

        # Get the person object
        my $person = $tmdb->person( id => '1331' );

        # Movie Data (as returned by the API)
        use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper);
        print Dumper $person->info;
        print Dumper $person->credits;
        print Dumper $person->images;

        # Filtered Person data
        print $person->name;
        print $person->aka;                 # Also Known As (list of names)
        print $person->bio;
        print $person->image;               # Main profile image
        print $person->starred_in;          # List of titles (as cast)
        print $person->directed;            # list of titles Directed
        print $person->produced;            # list of titles produced
        print $person->executive_produced;  # List of titles as an Executive Producer
        print $person->wrote;               # List of titles as a writer/screenplay

COLLECTION

        # Get the collection object
        my $collection = $tmdb->collection(id => '2344');

        # Collection data (as returned by the API)
        use Data::Dumper;
        print Dumper $collection->info;

        # Filtered Collection Data
        print $collection->titles;  # List of titles in the collection
        print $collection->ids;     # List of movie IDs in the collection

DEPENDENCIES

Encode
HTTP::Tiny
JSON::Any
Locale::Codes
Object::Tiny
Params::Validate
URI::Encode

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

All data returned is UTF-8 encoded

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-tmdb@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=TMDB

AUTHOR

Mithun Ayachit mithun@cpan.org

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2012, Mithun Ayachit. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.