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Originally uploaded by Ino*.
Importing data from web sites is a pain in the… armpit.
The Internet evolves so fast, websites are updated very often, HTML is a mess and I’m still looking for a date with Milla Jovovich.
Tellico, a cool whateveryouwant manager with a nice IMDb movie import routine. But it’s hard coded.
IMDb changes its pages once a month (ok, maybe not so often) and people have to wait for the Tellico developers to update the C++ code and build a new release. Then they have to download it and install it again, hoping IMDb didn’t change again in the meantime.
Sounds funny?
The only way to deal with this is using scripts. Perl and Python are a good choice for this purpose, I suppose.
Collectorz.com uses the perl approach, with an interesting addition.
The scripts are downloaded automatically from their website, so the user has the latest available scripts without even knowing it.
Embedding a perl interpreter is possible, but it’s not worth the effort. Linux users are lucky as I still have to see a distro missing a perl interpreter. Same for Mac OS X, I hope.
Windows users don’t want to know what “perl” is, so they will download a nice installer with the movida import plugin and a 600KB perl interpreter.
Well, this will be the good reason for me to learn perl 
Now, does anybody know how to date Milla?!?