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<blockquote data-quote="falkyre" data-source="post: 47759" data-attributes="member: 19127">I've taken a look at what was done for the French and you have a full featured plugin that is much farther along than I have in mine.&nbsp; Right now, I am in the middle of working on screen scraping and creating regular expression matching.&nbsp; Here's my high level design goal:<ul>
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Create a plugin style of parsing engine that will use seperate sets of code for each location.&nbsp; So there would be a plugin for USA/Canada, one for France, one for Germany etc... 
 
Rather than grab the data while MP is running, I envision creating a&nbsp; data importer that will run outside of MP and populate a database with theater info, movie info, actor info, etc...&nbsp; This is how the now defunct Meedio worked with it's Movie Showtime plugin 
 
Once the database is populated, then extend&nbsp; the myTrailers plugin&nbsp; to utilize the information in the database and tie movie information to what the myTrailer's plugin handles. 
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</ul>Now understand I am just starting on this, getting my head wrapped around the screen scraping and regex stuff (it's been a while on my programming).&nbsp; Once I get those working, then I will start on the importer engine.&nbsp; I figured getting a good section of Web Sites to look at first would be a good start.&nbsp; Yahoo provides quite a bit but probably not everything out there.&nbsp;&nbsp; For your French plugin, is the data parser seperate from the actual GUI component?It looks like there is someform of xmlgrabber component involved as well (understand English is my native language and I don't speak French all that well...have to rely on Bablefish <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops!&nbsp; &nbsp; :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" /> )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="falkyre, post: 47759, member: 19127"] I've taken a look at what was done for the French and you have a full featured plugin that is much farther along than I have in mine. Right now, I am in the middle of working on screen scraping and creating regular expression matching. Here's my high level design goal: [list] Create a plugin style of parsing engine that will use seperate sets of code for each location. So there would be a plugin for USA/Canada, one for France, one for Germany etc... Rather than grab the data while MP is running, I envision creating a data importer that will run outside of MP and populate a database with theater info, movie info, actor info, etc... This is how the now defunct Meedio worked with it's Movie Showtime plugin Once the database is populated, then extend the myTrailers plugin to utilize the information in the database and tie movie information to what the myTrailer's plugin handles. [/list] Now understand I am just starting on this, getting my head wrapped around the screen scraping and regex stuff (it's been a while on my programming). Once I get those working, then I will start on the importer engine. I figured getting a good section of Web Sites to look at first would be a good start. Yahoo provides quite a bit but probably not everything out there. For your French plugin, is the data parser seperate from the actual GUI component? It looks like there is someform of xmlgrabber component involved as well (understand English is my native language and I don't speak French all that well...have to rely on Bablefish :oops: ) [/QUOTE]

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