NAME

IMDB::Persons - Perl extension for retrieving movies persons from IMDB.com

SYNOPSIS

  	use IMDB::Persons;

	my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => '0000129')

	or 

  	my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => 'Tom Cruise');

	if($person->status) {
		print "Name: ".$person->name."\n";
		print "Birth Date: ".$person->date_of_birth."\n";
	} else {
		print "Something wrong: ".$person->error."!\n";
	}
  

DESCRIPTION

IMDB::Persons allows to retrieve an information about IMDB persons (actors, actresses, directors etc): full name, photo, date and place of birth, mini bio and filmography.

Object Private Methods

_init()

Initialize a new object.

_search_person()

Implements a logic to search IMDB persons by their names.

Object Public Methods

name()

Retrieve a person full name

my $person_name = $person->name();
mini_bio()

Returns a mini bio for specified IMDB person

my $mini_bio = $person->mini_bio();
date_of_birth()

Returns a date of birth of IMDB person in format 'day' 'month caption' 'year':

my $d_birth = $person->date_of_birth();
place_of_birth()

Returns a name of place of the birth

my $place = $person->place_of_birth();
photo()

Return a path to the person's photo

my $photo = $person->photo();
filmography()

Returns a person's filmography as array of hashes with a following structure:

my $fg = $person->filmography();

__DATA__
$fg = [
	{ 	title 	=> 'movie title', 
		role 	=> 'person role', 
		year 	=> 'year of movie production',
		code	=> 'IMDB code of movie',	
	}
];

EXPORTS

Nothing

BUGS

Please, send me any found bugs by email: misha@thunderworx.com.

SEE ALSO

HTML::TokeParser, IMDB::BaseClass; IMDB::Film;

AUTHOR

Mikhail Stepanov (stepanov.michael@gmail.com)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2004, Mikhail Stepanov. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.

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