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th0th / th0ths-movie-collection

A plugin that enables you to share your movie collection with ratings on your WordPress.
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Could This Be Updated to use TMdb's API instead of scraping IMDB? #2

Open vonshavingcream opened 11 years ago

vonshavingcream commented 11 years ago

Just a thought. I would be happy to help, I have years of PHP experience and a working TMDB class, just needs to be converted to wordpress ready and integrated into the plugin

th0th commented 11 years ago

It would be really awesome. I am hearing from a lot of users but I don't have much time to work on the plugin. If you are volunteer to help me maintaining, contact me via e-mail or something and we could get along :)

vonshavingcream commented 11 years ago

Here's my personal email address. I already have an api key from tmdb to use for testing. It is a commercial api, since the site we use it for now is used to generate ad revenue but that doesn't really matter.

I think it would be nice to integrate the tmdb stuff into the plug-in next to the imdb scraping, that way it is optional if people don't want to apply for an api key.

I am an experienced PHP developer (12+ years), but I haven't ever written anything to work inside the wordpress framework. I will try and read through some documentation this coming week. If you can suggest anything that would be helpful, please do.

I mainly write complete web applications / webservices for companies. More and more of those clients are asking me to develop custom wordpress plug-ins so this would be a great opportunity to learn.

Talk soon, Chris Severn

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:42 AM, H.Gökhan Sarı notifications@github.comwrote:

It would be really awesome. I am hearing from a lot of users but I don't have much time to work on the plugin. If you are volunteer to help me maintaining, contact me via e-mail or something and we could get along :)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/th0th/th0ths-movie-collection/issues/2#issuecomment-17135084 .

th0th commented 11 years ago

Github masked your e-mail address, so I still don't have it :) I have worries about making the plugin depend on some external API, it would be a lot nicer if the code used is publicly available and licensed with a free software license. It would be awesome if you could check if the new version of the scraping library that I used before is available to fix the issue. Also, it would be a lot easier to upgrade that library, meaning only replacing a file in the plugin.

caercam commented 10 years ago

Hi @th0th and @vonshavingcream, thought I'd leave a word here, I'm actively working on a extended WordPress movie library plugin here: https://github.com/Askelon/WPMovieLibrary It's still in heavy development but still features most of what I want it to do. It actually started almost a year ago as my own adaptation of th0ths-movie-collection to use TMDb, but quickly turned out to be a completely new stuff. Feel free to test and feedback if you got time!

Cheers, and congrats for your work on this plugin @th0th :wink: