IMDB::Persons(3pm)

💖 IMDB::Persons 💖

okay bestie, so like. this is IMDB::Persons, a Perl extension for retrieving movies persons from IMDB.com ✨ and yes you read that right, we're pulling whole entire humans out of the internet, no cap 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use IMDB::Persons;

#
# Retrieve a person information by IMDB code
#
my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => '0000129');

or

#
# Retrieve a person information by name
#
my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => 'Tom Cruise');

or

#
# Process already stored HTML page from IMDB
#
my $person = new IMDB::Persons(file => 'imdb.html');

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

like. three whole ways to get a person. you can slide in with an IMDB code, you can just say a name and let it go find them, or you can hand it a page you already saved. it's giving options 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

IMDB::Persons lets you retrieve an information about IMDB persons (actors, actresses, directors etc) — and when i say information i mean the whole glow-up: full name, photo, date and place of birth, mini bio and filmography. obsessed honestly 💖

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🎀 Object Private Methods 🎀

these are the backstage ones, the crew behind the scenes, don't touch em unless you know what you're doing bestie ✨

• _init() — Initialize a new object. it's literally the birth of the object, main character origin story fr 🌱
• _search_person() — Implements a logic to search IMDB persons by their names. so when you give it a name instead of a code, this is the little detective doing the work 🔍

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👑 Object Public Methods 👑

these are the ones you're actually here for. the icons. the stars. the ones you call. 💅

⭐ 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();

like a little snack-sized lore drop. adorable.

⭐ date_of_birth()

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

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

heads up bestie: that's 'day', then the month caption (the word, not a number, iykyk), then 'year'. in that order. periodt.

⭐ place_of_birth()

Returns a name of place of the birth 🌍

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

where the icon spawned. iconic.

⭐ photo()

Return a path to the person's photo 📸

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

the serve. the visual. the whole vibe check in one path.

⭐ filmography()

Returns a person's filmography as a hash of arrays with following structure: 🎬

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

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

The section can be In Development, Actor, Self, Thanks, Archive Footage, Producer etc. so many sections, so many eras, we love a multifaceted queen 👑

⭐ genres()

Retrieve a list of movie genres for specified person: 🌈

my $genres = $persons->genres;

⭐ plot_keywords()

Retrieve a list of keywords for movies where specified person plays: 🔥

my $keywords = $persons->plot_keywords;

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💀 EXPORTS 💀

No Matches.

like. zero. nothing. nada. we export nothing bestie, it's giving minimalism 🙈

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😭 BUGS 😭

Please, send me any found bugs by email: stepanov.michael@gmail.com.

fr fr if you find a bug, email it. don't just sit there suffering in silence, the author wants to know 💌

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• IMDB::Film
• IMDB::BaseClass
• WWW::Yahoo::Movies
• HTML::TokeParser

go read those too, they're the supporting cast 💜

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Mikhail Stepanov AKA nite_man (stepanov.michael@gmail.com)

the icon behind the icon 👑

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

Copyright (c) 2004 - 2007, Mikhail Stepanov. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.

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okay and that's the whole page bestie 💖 this was IMDB::Persons, documented for perl v5.32.0, dated 2021-01-07, and honestly? slay. go fetch some persons. you got this 🌟💅✨