ice-cinema-fetcher

A Node package that fetches data about movies being screened Icelandic cinemas

About

There are two major cinema data providers in Iceland, Sambíóin and Midi.is. Sambíóin have an open XML API at http://sambio.is/xml but Midi.is requires an authentication. Selfossbíó is the only big cinema that has yet to offer access to their data.

This package aims to unify these sources outputting one object containg info and timings for every movie being screened in Iceland, with additional info from Youtube (trailers) and IMDb (ratings). The structure should be the following:

{
    "results": [
        {
            "title": "The Lego Movie",
            "year": "2014",
            "length": "100",
            "imdbUrl": "http://imdb.com/1337",
            "imgSmallUrl": "/posters/the-lego-movie-small.jpg",
            "imgLargeUrl": "/posters/the-lego-movie-large.jpg",
            "trailerUrl": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_JOBCLF-I",
            "restriction": "12",
            "ratings": [
                {
                    "source": "imdb",
                    "rating": "5.5",
                    "top": "10.0",
                    "votes": "14323"
                }
            ],
            "showtimes": [
                { 
                    "theater": "Kringlan",
                    "schedule": [
                        {
                            "time": "20:00",
                            "auditorium": "2",
                            "extra": "3D",
                            "buyUrl": "http://www.sambio.is/Websales/Show/164157/"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

trailerUrl will not be included until the Youtube has been added

Installation

Using npm:

npm install ice-cinema-fetcher

Usage

var moviesFetcher = require('ice-cinema-fetcher');
moviesFetcher.fetch(function(err, res) {
    if (err) {
        console.log('Fetching movies failed')
    }
    else {
        console.log(res);
    }
});

Development

The module now fetches only data from the Sambíó XML and adds metadata from IMDb. The connection to Midi.is and Selfossbíó, as well as metadata from Youtube have yet to be implemented.

The IMDb data is fetched through http://omdbapi.com/ since IMDb does not have a documented api.

Licence

© 2014 Hugi Hlynsson

MIT