Bootleg

Bootleg is a basic scraper. It scrapes movie, theater and showtime details from moviefone.com based on a certain zipcode for a 25 mile radius.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'bootleg'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install bootleg

Generate models and migrations:

$ rails generate bootleg:install

Usage

Load content for a certain zipcode:

Example:

$ Bootleg.load('21102')

This will load all the movies for a 25 mile radius(including their showtimes and the theaters where they play).

Examples:

$ movie = BootlegMovie.where(name: 'Example').first

Get all the theaters where the movie is played:

$ theaters = movie.theaters

Get all the showtimes:

$ showtimes = movie.showtimes

Get the theater of the showtimes:

$ theater = showtimes.first.theater

Other Details

The content is stored in 3 Active Record models BootlegMovie, BootlegTheater and BootlegShowtime. After you load a zipcode just start a rails console and take a look at the models to see what information is stored inside.

The zipcode is stored under BootlegShowtime.:w

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

It is relatively easy to pull other information from moviefone.com. If you need an extra feature and you would like to contribute feel free to shoot me an email at [email protected] beforehand.