Bug #62288 for IMDB-Film: Localized title name instead of original title

Tue Oct 19 19:38:01 2010 tolanri [...] gmail.com - Ticket created

Subject:	Localized title name instead of original title
Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:37:53 +0200
To:	bug-IMDB-Film [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Tolanri <tolanri [...] gmail.com>

Hello, thanks a lot for a great module. Since IMDB changed last month, the module does not work very well for me. Most of the issues have been fixed in past updates, but one is still missing. title() returns a localized title, instead of original name. For example, imdb 0955308 (Robin Hood) returns Robin des Bois.

Wed Oct 20 02:30:02 2010 stepanov.michael [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #62288] Localized title name instead of original title
Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:29:31 +0300
To:	bug-IMDB-Film [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Michael Stepanov <stepanov.michael [...] gmail.com>

Hi Tolanri, This is a new feature of IMDB, as I understand. I'll try to fix it. But not sure when. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Tolanri via RT <bug-IMDB-Film@rt.cpan.org>wrote: Show quoted text

> Tue Oct 19 19:38:01 2010: Request 62288 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by tolanri@gmail.com > Queue: IMDB-Film > Subject: Localized title name instead of original title > Broken in: (no value) > Severity: (no value) > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: tolanri@gmail.com > Status: new > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62288 > > > > Hello, thanks a lot for a great module. > > Since IMDB changed last month, the module does not work very well for me. > Most of the issues have been fixed in past updates, but one is still > missing. title() returns a localized title, instead of original name. For > example, imdb 0955308 (Robin Hood) returns Robin des Bois. > >

-- Best regards, Michael Stepanov http://linuxmce.ru

Wed Oct 20 02:30:03 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Nov 05 15:09:16 2010 2ge [...] 2ge.us - Correspondence added

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2ge [...] 2ge.us

Hi, we got same problem here, and it becomes quite serious. For now, only one workaround, I know is using proxy (first, you must have reliable proxy provider with server located in USA) - of course, there is still possible to patch IMDB, or using regexp... anyway, if you find the time to fix this issue, I think, not only me will be very grateful. Thanks for your great work. On Wed Oct 20 02:30:02 2010, stepanov.michael@gmail.com wrote: Show quoted text

> Hi Tolanri, > > This is a new feature of IMDB, as I understand. I'll try to fix it.

But not Show quoted text

> sure when. >

Mon Nov 08 05:00:55 2010 stepanov.michael [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #62288] Localized title name instead of original title
Date:	Mon, 8 Nov 2010 12:00:18 +0200
To:	bug-IMDB-Film [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Michael Stepanov <stepanov.michael [...] gmail.com>

Hi, If you go to IMDB web site using web browser. Can you choose English version some how? I always see English version from Cyprus. So, I cannot reproduce that problem. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Ing. Branislav Gerzo via RT < bug-IMDB-Film@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> Queue: IMDB-Film > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62288 > > > Hi, > > we got same problem here, and it becomes quite serious. For now, only > one workaround, I know is using proxy (first, you must have reliable > proxy provider with server located in USA) - of course, there is still > possible to patch IMDB, or using regexp... > > anyway, if you find the time to fix this issue, I think, not only me > will be very grateful. > > Thanks for your great work. > > > On Wed Oct 20 02:30:02 2010, stepanov.michael@gmail.com wrote:

> > Hi Tolanri, > > > > This is a new feature of IMDB, as I understand. I'll try to fix it.

> But not

> > sure when. > >

>

-- Best regards, Michael Stepanov http://linuxmce.ru

Mon Nov 08 05:15:36 2010 tolanri [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #62288] Localized title name instead of original title
Date:	Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:15:15 +0100
To:	bug-IMDB-Film [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Tolanri <tolanri [...] gmail.com>

If it's any help I try to attach HTML page of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0955308/ accessed from France IP so you can see how page looks like. Not every movie title is localized and some languages have more movie titles translated than others of course... On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Michael Stepanov via RT < bug-IMDB-Film@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62288 > > > Hi, > > If you go to IMDB web site using web browser. Can you choose English > version > some how? I always see English version from Cyprus. So, I cannot reproduce > that problem. > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Ing. Branislav Gerzo via RT < > bug-IMDB-Film@rt.cpan.org> wrote: >

> > Queue: IMDB-Film > > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62288 > > > > > Hi, > > > > we got same problem here, and it becomes quite serious. For now, only > > one workaround, I know is using proxy (first, you must have reliable > > proxy provider with server located in USA) - of course, there is still > > possible to patch IMDB, or using regexp... > > > > anyway, if you find the time to fix this issue, I think, not only me > > will be very grateful. > > > > Thanks for your great work. > > > > > > On Wed Oct 20 02:30:02 2010, stepanov.michael@gmail.com wrote:

> > > Hi Tolanri, > > > > > > This is a new feature of IMDB, as I understand. I'll try to fix it.

> > But not

> > > sure when. > > >

> >

> > > > -- > Best regards, > Michael Stepanov > http://linuxmce.ru > >

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Wed Dec 08 11:16:24 2010 hrkfdn [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #62288] Localized title name instead of original title
Date:	Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:16:13 +0100
To:	bug-IMDB-Film [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Henrik Friedrichsen <hrkfdn [...] gmail.com>

This is very annoying indeed. I found the use of the "akas.imdb.com" mirror to be a decent workaround: $film = new IMDB::Film(host => 'akas.imdb.com', crit => $args); Your titles should now be in English again

Wed Dec 08 11:39:36 2010 stepanov.michael [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #62288] Localized title name instead of original title
Date:	Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:39:07 +0200
To:	bug-IMDB-Film [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Michael Stepanov <stepanov.michael [...] gmail.com>

Thanks, Henrik, for your solution. This is annoying but I cannot do anything. Because the IMDB redirect by IP to some local site. There are two possibility to avoid it - simulate login procedure and generate cookies. Both of them are complicated. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Henrik Friedrichsen via RT < bug-IMDB-Film@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> Queue: IMDB-Film > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62288 > > > This is very annoying indeed. I found the use of the "akas.imdb.com" > mirror to be a decent workaround: > > $film = new IMDB::Film(host => 'akas.imdb.com', crit => $args); > > Your titles should now be in English again >

-- Best regards, Michael Stepanov http://linuxmce.ru

Wed Dec 08 11:50:12 2010 hrkfdn [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #62288] Localized title name instead of original title
Date:	Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:50:01 +0100
To:	bug-IMDB-Film [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Henrik Friedrichsen <hrkfdn [...] gmail.com>

Well that is rather odd. My IRC Bot requests return localized movie titles (German) as well, but changing the host to "akas.imdb.com" fixed it for me. Supposedly it is a mirror that is in English all the time!

Wed Dec 08 12:05:37 2010 stepanov.michael [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #62288] Localized title name instead of original title
Date:	Wed, 8 Dec 2010 19:05:10 +0200
To:	bug-IMDB-Film [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Michael Stepanov <stepanov.michael [...] gmail.com>

That's good. But it's shame IMDB still doesn't offer any API. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Henrik Friedrichsen via RT < bug-IMDB-Film@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> Queue: IMDB-Film > Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62288 > > > Well that is rather odd. My IRC Bot requests return localized movie titles > (German) as well, but changing the host to "akas.imdb.com" fixed it for > me. Supposedly it is a mirror that is in English all the time! >

-- Best regards, Michael Stepanov http://linuxmce.ru

Sat May 04 16:03:08 2013 markus.koeberl [...] tugraz.at - Correspondence added

Subject:	[rt.cpan.org #62288]
Date:	Sat, 4 May 2013 22:02:39 +0200
To:	bug-IMDB-Film [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Markus Koeberl <markus.koeberl [...] tugraz.at>

For me using host => 'akas.imdb.com' does not work. But the problem seem to be different: Using my web browser I always get the English version. But using IMDB::Film or wget I always got the German version. So I checked the HTTP header and found out that if I use wget --header "Accept-Language: en-US,en" I get the English version. So changing BaseClass.pm to set a header resolved the problem for me. --- orig/BaseClass.pm 2013-05-04 21:47:03.466278882 +0200 +++ new/BaseClass.pm 2013-05-04 21:45:55.000000000 +0200 @@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ $ua->timeout($self->timeout); $ua->agent($self->user_agent); + $ua->default_header('Accept-Language' => "en-US,en"); $self->_content( $args{crit} ); $self->_parser();

Thu May 09 12:17:46 2013 u.tueshaus [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	[rt.cpan.org #62288] Localized title name instead of original title
Date:	Thu, 09 May 2013 18:17:19 +0200
To:	bug-IMDB-Film [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Ulrich Tüshaus <u.tueshaus [...] gmail.com>

I can confirm that the proposed change Show quoted text

> + $ua->default_header('Accept-Language' => "en-US,en");

retrieves the english title if available. While in most cases it is the original title, this is not always the case. For http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/ for example, this solution returns "Breathless" (with "À bout de souffle" being the original title). On the other hand, the IMDB web page contains the following information: <h1 class="header"> <span class="itemprop" itemprop="name">Breathless</span> <span class="nobr">(<a href="/year/1960/?ref_=tt_ov_inf">1960</a>)</span> <br><span class="title-extra" itemprop="name"> "À bout de souffle" <i>(original title)</i> </span> </h1> Wouldn't it be more straightforward to use the "title-extra" information from IMDB (perhaps in a variable of its own) to provide the original film title independant of the setting of the local browser language? Regards, Ulrich P.S. Unfortunately, I am not good enough at perl to come up with the adequate patch.