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#7 Fixes showtimes for Yahoo as of 11/5/2003
At least as of 11/5/2003 the showtimes stopped being
processed correctly on Yahoo. The attached file fixes
this bug. I had to remove the parenthesis (they were
not showing up correctly anyway) - if anyone can figure
out how to get them to show up correctly, that would be
good.
I also noticed that if there are a LOT of times (Matrix
Revolutions is causing this :-) ) it truncates them.
Here is an example of a list of times that get
truncated (it clips off one and a half times):
8:30 PM, 9:00, 9:45, 10:10, 10:30, 10:50, (9:00 AM),
(10:20), (10:40), (11:00), (11:30), (12:00), (12:30),
(1:05), (1:25), (1:50), (2:20), (2:50), (3:30), (3:50),
(4:10), (4:30), (5:00), (5:20), (5:45), 6:30, 6:55,
7:20, 7:40, 8:10
I have not fixed that bug.
Patched getdata.pl - mainly in the SplitShowtimes() method
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I am not seeing any incorrect behaviour in the parsing of
times. what is the zip and p= value you are using? this way I
can try to see exactly what you are seeing.
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I use zip 30096. It was working before the day that I made
the patch. The main thing that seemed broken (and that my
patch addressed) was that they would have the times listed
like the ones that I have in my example... Here they are
again (notice how they only say PM once):
8:30 PM, 9:00, 9:45, 10:10, 10:30, 10:50, (9:00 AM),
(10:20), (10:40), (11:00), (11:30), (12:00), (12:30),
(1:05), (1:25), (1:50), (2:20), (2:50), (3:30), (3:50),
(4:10), (4:30), (5:00), (5:20), (5:45), 6:30, 6:55,
7:20, 7:40, 8:10
The algorithm in the original perl script would hand me back
all AM times other than that 8:30PM. I fixed that in my patch.
HTH,
Allen
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Do you have "SHOWSESSIONS" selected in your .cfg file?
I am not seeing the "incorrect" behaviour, but I dont have
this selected ... I have one listing/movie/theater, with all
the times listed in the one panel, in the same order they
are from the yahoo page.
getdata.cfg file that I use
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Yep, I have SHOWSESSIONS selected. I have included my .cfg
file in case you wanted to check any more of my settings.
Anyway, the patch that I put up appears to be continuing to
work. If it is unnecessary and there is just a different
setting that would be fine too. If you want a good example
of what is messed up, look for some of the theaters that are
showing the Matrix on like 3 screens (so that there are
loads of times) and look for one where they have times
without PM on all of them.
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the routine you modified isnt used if you dont use
SHOWSESSIONS. I personally dont use that option, and I like
the way the movie times are presented. Also, the times seem
to be presented in the order they are from yahoo. I havent
found any "clipping" of the times yet (even using your zipcode)
. Have you tried using it without sessions? I see nothing else
different between out two .cfg files.
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Agreed - turning SHOWSESSIONS off also seems to fix the
problem. Thanks!
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Is anyone able to successfully obtain movie plots off of
yahoo at this point? I've tried the installs, the fixes,
the updates. The yahoo.pm seems to be a problem I can't
get around. I'd just like to verify that it works for
someone before I spend more hours pounding my head against
it. :)
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the movie plots retrieval is part of getdata.pl, not part
of yahoo.pm.
I just tested doing a clean install of showtimes from the
home website, and dropping the getdata.pl and yahoo.pm from
patch 618963, modified the example yahoo entries so the
value for "p" is zero and it worked, including plots. You
need both of the above two files to get the best results.
Also, yahoo something about the "p=" value, so I find it
best to start from zero and move up to see what will work.
Also, I dont use getdata.exe, but invoke it as :
perl getdata.pl
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re: "I dont use getdata.exe, but invoke it as : perl getdata.pl"
ahh. I don't have perl on my Win2K box, so I have been
using the getdata.exe. getdata.exe may be part of my
problem.
I'll try to find out how to get a copy of perl so I can
execute the script as you do.
"Also yahoo something about the ..." ?? I don't understand
this sentence - is a word missing from what you typed?
I'll reattempt, and stay with it till it works, now that I
know it CAN work<RBG>
thanks for your reply!
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"Also, yahoo something"
should be
"Also, yahoo changed something"
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I am having similar problems to those listed here. I have
never been able to get plots and am not that bothered. But
Showtimes was working fine for months and then stopped
working some time in December/January. I keep getting the
GETDATA.PL ERROR that I've seen others getting. I do not
have (not even sure what it is). So far the only thing that I
have found to work was to go to the movies.yahoo page for
my zip and copy the URL in to the getdata.cfg file as
suggested. This URL does not have the many extensions
that the URLs included in the .cfg file have. The only problem
is that I only get movietimes for that day.
Can someone give me a simple solution to this problem?
Thanx.
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It is working fine for me now.
Blackmoor fixed things quite nicely. I'll quote from him:
"Largely due to your question, there is a new version which
fixes many bugs.
Showtimes 0.7 (2004-01-10)
Version 0.7 incorporates numerous fixes by myself and
others, primarily pertaining to Yahoo movie times, and IMDb
plots and genres. Additionally, the Windows versions now
include native Windows binaries, obviating the need to
install Perl (although you still may, if you prefer).
http://www.blackgate.net/downloads/
bblackmoor@blackgate.net
2004-01-10
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IMHO, he da man!