I'll do it -- I have lots of experience with LWP already and have been
itching to contribute some code. This sounds right up my alley. :)
On Mar 24, 2004, at 11:11 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
Something for people looking for a fun project to hack
on:
IMDB (the movie database) has a submission interface for signed in
users
which can be used to submit "External reviews" to IMDB. I was advised
by
the IMDB staff that, in order to work towards a more comprehensive
content
partnership with them, we should first submit links to the relevant
movies, so that they can gauge user interest.
So we need a bot that auto-submits all Wikipedia articles about movies
to
IMDB's "external reviews" sections about these movies.
There is a [[List of movies]]. An index could be generated from the
linked
pages. The script should remember which movies it has already
submitted,
so that we can easily add new articles to the index.
IMDB takes some time to process submissions, so you can only test if
the
script is working correctly by looking at the HTML sent from their
server.
You will probably want to use some throwaway email address for the
account
as IMDB sends a confirmation for each submission.
For implementing this I would use libwww-perl, an excellent web
scripting
library for Perl, but I'm sure there are equivalents for all other
major
scripting languages.
So, does anyone want to take this project?
Regards,
Erik
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