freshcocoa

Hi all,

In my last post I mentioned that I had written and lost a php based site to assist media managers in scraping for trailers. One of the issues the media managers face is scraping for movie trailers. The only large and stable enough repositories out there for movie trailers are Apple Trailers, Yahoo Trailers and YouTube. Unfortunately Apple Trailers seems to remove trailers after the movie has been released for a few months and Yahoo trailers doesn’t seem to have a mass of HD trailers or any real structure (although I have not really investigated it). The issue with YouTube is that while there are plenty of movie trailers in HD quality, it would be virtually impossible for the media managers to automatically select the best trailer from the search results.

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I recently wrote a php-based site that would handle movie trailer scraping for third party media applications. It was my first foray into building a php site from the ground up and it wasn’t too difficult. The whole process of learning php, mysql and jquery and coding the site took about 10-14 days. Unfortunately during the transfer between hosts I lost everything (never trust that your FTP will download everything overnight and then not double check that it did) and I was pretty disappointed that I had lost the site I had just finished coding and was about to be released.

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