Movie Time RSS feeds from IMDB

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I've finally put together a quick and dirty perl script to pull movie times from IMDB. The output is an RSS 1.0 feed at this point. You will need the following perl modules (some pretty bog standard and some not):


use strict;
use diagnostics;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;
use XML::RSS;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
use POSIX qw(strftime);

It is currently designed to be run from the command line (or cron) and it outputs the rss feed to a file. Theater ids can be found by entering your location at this URL:http://www.imdb.com/showtimes/location/
You will then need to select a particular theater to find out the theater id.

This script is modeled after our design. It will pull a feed for each of the 3 local theaters. These will then be displayed in a collective RSS channel that will allow the collapsing of each theater individually.

Pretty straight forward but feel free to hit me up if you need help.

Dallas