Feature Request: Trakt as rating source? (1 Viewer)

[kiwijunglist]

Hi

I've been looking at the ratings posted on trakt, and I think I prefer them to rotten tomatoes and imdb. Is there a chance we could have an option to pull the average user rating from trakt?

 

[RoChess]

I'll look into that.

As long as trakt allows me to provide their API/search with an IMDb tt-ID and the correct Trakt movie pops up to match, then I can do it easy, the same way RottenTomatoes allows me to do so via: http://rottentomatoes.com/alias?type=imdbid&s=0499549 (Avatar example)

[edit]: Quick look at Trakt.tv API looks like they require JSON with authentication, which means I have to do a simelair proxy support system as I did with Dutch Moviemeter.nl because otherwise I would have to convert the XML based IMDb+ scraper-script into a C# based one and that is not something I want to even think about.

Will have a chat with ltfearme/damienh as he worked on the Trakt plugin to see if he knows about a GET method to do it alike the way RottenTomatoes does, or can direct me to the JSON method for another proxy script on my server.

 

[Edalex]

Seems like it's GET without auth
http://trakt.tv/api-docs/movie-summary

 

[RoChess]

Seems like it's GET without auth
http://trakt.tv/api-docs/movie-summary

Thanks for looking that up, the JSON output from the GET I can process with regular expression probably quicker as-is then trying to actually parse it and their API example:

Returns:

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{"title":"The Social Network","year":2010,"released":1285916400,"url":"http://trakt.tv/movie/the-social-network-2010","trailer":"(youtube link removed)","runtime":120,"tagline":"You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.","overview":"On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.","certification":"PG-13","imdb_id":"tt1285016","tmdb_id":37799,"rt_id":0,"last_updated":1342610861,"poster":"http://trakt.us/images/posters_movies/60.2.jpg","images":{"poster":"http://trakt.us/images/posters_movies/60.2.jpg","fanart":"http://trakt.us/images/fanart_movies/60.2.jpg"},"top_watchers":[{"plays":8,"username":"idarkside","protected":false,"full_name":"","gender":"male","age":24,"location":"UK","about":"","joined":1333065951,"avatar":"http://trakt.us/images/avatar-large.jpg","url":"http://trakt.tv/user/idarkside"},{"plays":5,"username":"starcitysecrets","protected":false,"full_name":"Carl Taylor","gender":"male","age":23,"location":"Brighton, UK","about":"Author of the WIP XBMC skin PROJECT NEBULA","joined":1291685523,"avatar":"http://trakt.us/images/avatars/677.jpg","url":"http://trakt.tv/user/starcitysecrets"},{"plays":4,"username":"Rooster242","protected":false,"full_name":"","gender":"","age":"","location":"","about":"","joined":1298419484,"avatar":"http://trakt.us/images/avatar-large.jpg","url":"http://trakt.tv/user/Rooster242"},{"plays":3,"username":"bkuri","protected":false,"full_name":"Bernardo Kuri","gender":"male","age":32,"location":"Mexico City","about":"","joined":1287685763,"avatar":"http://trakt.us/images/avatars/166.1.jpg","url":"http://trakt.tv/user/bkuri"},{"plays":3,"username":"robbiet480","protected":false,"full_name":"Robbie Trencheny","gender":"male","age":20,"location":"Oakland, CA, USA","about":"20 year old, teen, geek, developer","joined":1293067134,"avatar":"http://trakt.us/images/avatars/895.jpg","url":"http://trakt.tv/user/robbiet480"},{"plays":3,"username":"jonathanputney","protected":false,"full_name":"Jonathan P","gender":"male","age":27,"location":"Raleigh, NC","about":"","joined":1295328685,"avatar":"http://trakt.us/images/avatars/1594.jpg","url":"http://trakt.tv/user/jonathanputney"},{"plays":3,"username":"exstatica","protected":false,"full_name":"Exstatica","gender":"female","age":"","location":"","about":"","joined":1305243679,"avatar":"http://trakt.us/images/avatars/10090.jpg","url":"http://trakt.tv/user/exstatica"},{"plays":3,"username":"hanta","protected":false,"full_name":"","gender":"","age":"","location":"","about":"","joined":1315492272,"avatar":"http://trakt.us/images/avatar-large.jpg","url":"http://trakt.tv/user/hanta"},{"plays":3,"username":"clanmackenzie","protected":false,"full_name":"","gender":"","age":"","location":"","about":"","joined":1326025670,"avatar":"http://trakt.us/images/avatar-large.jpg","url":"http://trakt.tv/user/clanmackenzie"},{"plays":2,"username":"justin","protected":false,"full_name":"Justin","gender":"male","age":30,"location":"San Diego, CA","about":"Co-founder of trakt. Please use the feedback tab on the right side to leave us suggestions or bugs you come across. Hope you're enjoying the site!","joined":1285436965,"avatar":"http://trakt.us/images/avatars/1.4.jpg","url":"http://trakt.tv/user/justin"},{"plays":2,"username":"sean","protected":false,"full_name":"Sean Rudford","gender":"male","age":30,"location":"Portland, OR","about":"Web dev and what nots.","joined":1285436965,"avatar":"http://trakt.us/images/avatars/2.1.jpg","url":"http://trakt.tv/user/sean"},{"plays":2,"username":"suic7de","protected":false,"full_name":"Austin Lewis","gender":"male","age":"","location":"Texas","about":"","joined":1287695894,"avatar":"http://trakt.us/images/avatars/169.jpg","url":"http://trakt.tv/user/suic7de"}],"ratings":{"percentage":89,"votes":1195,"loved":1059,"hated":136},"stats":{"watchers":505,"plays":577,"scrobbles":572,"scrobbles_unique":500,"checkins":5,"checkins_unique":5,"collection":3969},"people":{"directors":[{"name":"David Fincher"}],"writers":[{"name":"Aaron Sorkin","job":"Screenplay"},{"name":"Ben Mezrich","job":"Novel"}],"producers":[{"name":"Ce\u00e1n Chaffin","executive":false},{"name":"Dana Brunetti","executive":false},{"name":"Kevin Spacey","executive":true},{"name":"Michael De Luca","executive":false},{"name":"Scott Rudin","executive":false}],"actors":[{"name":"Jesse Eisenberg","character":"Mark Zuckerberg"},{"name":"Andrew Garfield","character":"Eduardo Saverin"},{"name":"Justin Timberlake","character":"Sean Parker"},{"name":"Rooney Mara","character":"Erica"},{"name":"Bryan Barter","character":"Billy Olsen"},{"name":"Dustin Fitzsimons","character":"Phoenix Club President"},{"name":"Armie Hammer","character":"Cameron Winklevoss"},{"name":"Joseph Mazzello","character":"Dustin Moskovitz"},{"name":"Patrick Mapel","character":"Chris Hughes"},{"name":"Max Minghella","character":""},{"name":"Toby Meuli","character":"Phoenix Member Playing Facemash"},{"name":"Rashida Jones","character":""},{"name":"Malese Jow","character":"Alice"},{"name":"Brenda Song","character":""},{"name":"Dakota Johnson","character":""},{"name":"Trevor Wright","character":""},{"name":"Adina Porter","character":"Gretchen's Associate"}]},"genres":["Drama"]}
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Which seems to hold all the info I need, infact I could even expand IMDb+ to accept Trakt as a full input source as well for all the other details, inclusing artwork.

So will request API key and go from there.

 

[kiwijunglist]

Thank you both

 

[Edalex]

Thanks for looking that up, the JSON output from the GET I can process with regular expression probably quicker as-is then trying to actually parse it
So will request API key and go from there.

Hope no c# professional will read that you will parse json with regex.
And API key from example is yours. Mine is

apikey
 
Your API key is 2a978de.....

 

[RoChess]

Thanks for looking that up, the JSON output from the GET I can process with regular expression probably quicker as-is then trying to actually parse it
So will request API key and go from there.

Hope no c# professional will read that you will parse json with regex.
And API key from example is yours. Mine is

apikey
 
Your API key is 2a978de.....

That's what I get for doing last minute replying and not paying attention. Edited the link out and will ask them to generate me a new one

And yeah, I know it's like a sin to parse JSON the way I plan to do, but sometimes you just have to take shortcuts