How to add new websites to Movienizer?

Movienizer uses Pascal scripts to fetch information from the internet. The available scripts are stored in %APPDATA%\Movienizer\Scripts\ and are named *_movie.pas , where '*' should be replaced with the name of the site.

Using the existing scripts as an example and taking into account the following information, you can create new scripts.

Script functions called from the main program.

• function GetMovieNameByUPC(barcode: string): string;  //Get the name of the movie by its UPC Barcode.
• function GetSearchURLbyName(MovieName: string): string; //Generate a search URL to search for the requested title.
• function DownloadSearchURL(url: string): integer; //Load the HTML page with search results.
• function GetMovieURL(code: string; images_only: boolean): string; //Generate URL of the page that contains information about the movie by movie's code in the website's format.
• function SaveFrontCover(url, Filename: string): boolean; //Save picture from its URL to the given file.
• procedure GetImages; //Loading images.
• function GetInfo(url: string; images_only: boolean): string; //Get information about the movie by its URL. If 'images_only' is true, only images will be loaded.

The function GetInfo sets the following variables:

• title - title of the movie.
• original_title - original title of the movie (if translated)
• year - the year of publishing.
• country - the country that produced.
• description - description of the movie.
• duration - in minutes.
• imdb_code - IMDB code of the movie.
• movie_code - code of the movie in the format of the website.
• movie_site_url - URL of movie's website
• imdb_rating - IMDB rating of the movie
• script_name - name of the script
• mpaa - MPAA rating (G, PG etc.)
• mpaa_rating - MPAA rating (reason for being rated so)

Custom functions can also be defined, if needed.

Transferring the fetched data to the main program.

• procedure SetGenre(name: string); //Set genre of the movie.
• procedure SetCountry(name: string); //Set country that produced the movie.
• procedure SetPersonName(name, character: string; mode: integer; code: string); //Set people that participated in the movie.
  name - name of the person
  character - character in the movie played by the person
  mode - 1=director, 2=writer, 3=actor/actress
• procedure SetSearchResult(name, code: string; ind: integer); //Set search results.
  name - of what has been found
  code - code in the format of the website
  ind - number of the result (won't be used in future)
• procedure SetMovieName(name, character: string; mode: integer; code, year: string); //Set movies where the given person participated.
  name - name of the person
  character - character in the movie played by the person
  mode - 1=director, 2=writer, 3=actor/actress
  code - code of the person in the website's format
  year - year the movie was published
• procedure SetImageName(path, url, description: string; mode: integer); //Set list of images.
  path - filename
  url - URL of the image
  description - description of the image
  mode - type of the image:
  1=Front cover
  2=Back cover
  3=Shot from the movie
  4=Poster
  5=User image
  6=Photo
• procedure SaveLoginInfo(UserName, UserPassword, ScriptName: string); //Save user related information required to enter and search the website.

Some information is transferred using global variables in the script: title, year, rating etc. The above procedures are used only for the fields that can contain multiple entries: genre, country etc.

Functions of the main program called from scripts.

• var DecimalSeparator: char; //Decimal symbol
• var ResponseCode; //Response code from the server
• var UserName; //Username for logging in
• var UserPassword; //User password for logging in
• function ParseString(all, s: string; nom: integer): string; //Parse a string using regular expressions.
• function RemoveEndLines(all: string): string; //Remove end of line symbols using regular expressions. Not recommended.
• function RemoveTags(all: string): string; //Convert HTML to plain-text
• function DecodeHTML(all: string): string; //Convert HTML-codes of symbols into plain text symbols
• function DownloadURL(URL: string): string; //Download page from the URL and return it as a string. If not successful, returns -1. Server's response can be seeing with GetResponseCode.
• function DownloadURLWithReferer(url, referer: string): string; //Download URL using HTTP_REFERER. If referer=post, POST-method will be used for GET-inquiries.
• function ReplaceStr(s, s1, s2: string; ind: integer): string; //Searches s for s1-occurancies and replaces them with s2. For example, url:=ReplaceStr(url, ' ', '+') will replace all spaces with pluses in url.
• function MyPos(substr, s: string; ind: integer): string; //Searches for substr in s starting from the position ind.
• function ClearExtraSpaces(s: string): string; //Remove extra spaces at the beginning/end.
• function ClearExtraCharacters(s: string): string: //Remove beginning/end codes <32

Downloading data.

To download information about a movie, the program should:

1. Find the movie.
2. Download necessary information.

1. Finding the movie.

If UPC Barcode is provided, we search for the title with the help of GetMovieNameByUPC. If the title is known, we generate URL for searching using GetSearchURLbyName. Then DownloadSearchURL is called to get a list of movies with similar titles. In this function, the script should create a list using SetSearchResult.

2. Loading information about the movie.

For downloading information, GetInfo function is called. It should parse HTML code and set all necessary variables, like title, year, genres, actors, directors etc., images should be downloaded.

If you wish to share your script, please contact us. We will include it into the main package, and other people will be able to enjoy the new functionality. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact support any time.