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<blockquote data-quote="fforde" data-source="post: 688538" data-attributes="member: 52082">I think you are trying to reinvent the wheel! We have <a href="http://social.moving-pictures.tv" target="_blank">Moving Pictures Social</a> in Beta right now which you could sign up for. This creates a movie list on the <a href="http://social.moving-pictures.tv" target="_blank">Moving Pictures Social</a> domain, the whole site is very slick! And if you would rather have something on your personal web server there are various scripts and mini programs that have been posted on the forums to generate this. You could most likely grab one of those and go. The first one that comes to mind is <a href="http://code.google.com/p/movingpicturesxml/" target="_blank">MovingPicturesXML</a>.As far as the scraper engine goes, it is really not designed to be a multipurpose scripting language. The functionality is specifically tailored to retrieving and parsing data from the internet. Expanding the toolset available to script writers to make it an effective HTML writer would require a bit of work and is way outside the scope of what the scraper engine is meant to do. We plan to add export functionality in the future, but it will almost certainly not use the scraper engine.If you are not happy with existing solutions and you really want to code something yourself, I would suggest you check out a more general purpose scripting language like Python. With this you will have much more flexibility, nicer looking code, and you could directly peer into the Moving Pictures database with pysqlite.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fforde, post: 688538, member: 52082"] I think you are trying to reinvent the wheel! We have [url=http://social.moving-pictures.tv]Moving Pictures Social[/url] in Beta right now which you could sign up for. This creates a movie list on the [url=http://social.moving-pictures.tv]Moving Pictures Social[/url] domain, the whole site is very slick! And if you would rather have something on your personal web server there are various scripts and mini programs that have been posted on the forums to generate this. You could most likely grab one of those and go. The first one that comes to mind is [URL="http://code.google.com/p/movingpicturesxml/"]MovingPicturesXML[/URL]. As far as the scraper engine goes, it is really not designed to be a multipurpose scripting language. The functionality is specifically tailored to retrieving and parsing data from the internet. Expanding the toolset available to script writers to make it an effective HTML writer would require a bit of work and is way outside the scope of what the scraper engine is meant to do. We plan to add export functionality in the future, but it will almost certainly not use the scraper engine. If you are not happy with existing solutions and you really want to code something yourself, I would suggest you check out a more general purpose scripting language like Python. With this you will have [b]much[/b] more flexibility, nicer looking code, and you could directly peer into the Moving Pictures database with pysqlite. [/QUOTE]

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