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.IX Title "IMDB::Persons 3pm"
.TH IMDB::Persons 3pm "2021-01-07" "perl v5.32.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
IMDB::Persons \- Perl extension for retrieving movies persons
from IMDB.com
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 1
\&        use IMDB::Persons;
\&
\&        #
\&        # Retrieve a person information by IMDB code
\&        #
\&        my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => \*(Aq0000129\*(Aq);
\&
\&        or 
\&
\&        #
\&        # Retrieve a person information by name
\&        #
\&        my $person = new IMDB::Persons(crit => \*(AqTom Cruise\*(Aq);
\&
\&        or 
\&
\&        #
\&        # Process already stored HTML page from IMDB
\&        #
\&        my $person = new IMDB::Persons(file => \*(Aqimdb.html\*(Aq);
\&
\&        if($person\->status) {
\&                print "Name: ".$person\->name."\en";
\&                print "Birth Date: ".$person\->date_of_birth."\en";
\&        } else {
\&                print "Something wrong: ".$person\->error."!\en";
\&        }
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
IMDB::Persons allows one to retrieve an information about
\&\s-1IMDB\s0 persons (actors, actresses, directors etc): full name,
photo, date and place of birth, mini bio and filmography.
.SH "Object Private Methods"
.IX Header "Object Private Methods"
.IP "\fB_init()\fR" 4
.IX Item "_init()"
Initialize a new object.
.IP "\fB_search_person()\fR" 4
.IX Item "_search_person()"
Implements a logic to search \s-1IMDB\s0 persons by their names.
.SH "Object Public Methods"
.IX Header "Object Public Methods"
.IP "\fBname()\fR" 4
.IX Item "name()"
Retrieve a person full name
.Sp
.Vb 1
\&        my $person_name = $person\->name();
.Ve
.IP "\fBmini_bio()\fR" 4
.IX Item "mini_bio()"
Returns a mini bio for specified \s-1IMDB\s0 person
.Sp
.Vb 1
\&        my $mini_bio = $person\->mini_bio();
.Ve
.IP "\fBdate_of_birth()\fR" 4
.IX Item "date_of_birth()"
Returns a date of birth of \s-1IMDB\s0 person in format 'day' 'month caption' 'year':
.Sp
.Vb 1
\&        my $d_birth = $person\->date_of_birth();
.Ve
.IP "\fBplace_of_birth()\fR" 4
.IX Item "place_of_birth()"
Returns a name of place of the birth
.Sp
.Vb 1
\&        my $place = $person\->place_of_birth();
.Ve
.IP "\fBphoto()\fR" 4
.IX Item "photo()"
Return a path to the person's photo
.Sp
.Vb 1
\&        my $photo = $person\->photo();
.Ve
.IP "\fBfilmography()\fR" 4
.IX Item "filmography()"
Returns a person's filmography as a hash of arrays with following structure:
.Sp
.Vb 1
\&        my $fg = $person\->filmography();
\&
\&        _\|_DATA_\|_
\&        $fg = {
\&                \*(AqSection\*(Aq => [
\&                        {       title   => \*(Aqmovie title\*(Aq, 
\&                                role    => \*(Aqperson role\*(Aq, 
\&                                year    => \*(Aqyear of movie production\*(Aq,
\&                                code    => \*(AqIMDB code of movie\*(Aq,        
\&                        }
\&                ];
\&        }
.Ve
.Sp
The section can be In Development, Actor, Self, Thanks, Archive Footage, Producer etc.
.IP "\fBgenres()\fR" 4
.IX Item "genres()"
Retrieve a list of movie genres for specified person:
.Sp
.Vb 1
\&        my $genres = $persons\->genres;
.Ve
.IP "\fBplot_keywords()\fR" 4
.IX Item "plot_keywords()"
Retrieve a list of keywords for movies where specified person plays:
.Sp
.Vb 1
\&        my $keywords = $persons\->plot_keywords;
.Ve
.SH "EXPORTS"
.IX Header "EXPORTS"
No Matches.=head1 \s-1BUGS\s0
.PP
Please, send me any found bugs by email: stepanov.michael@gmail.com.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
IMDB::Film
IMDB::BaseClass
WWW::Yahoo::Movies
HTML::TokeParser
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Mikhail Stepanov \s-1AKA\s0 nite_man (stepanov.michael@gmail.com)
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.IX Header "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.