schrimpf — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:20:34 +0000

Thanks for all the suggestions. I was able to get what I wanted using a cgi script called "PageRipper". It gets the information for my local theaters from moviefone.com and displays them on my page.

detox — Sat, 09 Feb 2002 13:32:34 +0000

a screen scrape would be the way to go if you didn;t want the hastle of getting in touch with the cinemas themselves.

what language would you want to do it in? 4guysfromrolla has some articles on this. Just do a search on screen scrape

Mark Hensler — Sat, 09 Feb 2002 03:21:27 +0000

There are a few possibilities. The first is that these sites may be paying theater chanes to send them their daily schedules. The other possibility is that they are ripping the inforamation right off the theater's site.

You could use a cron job to parse theaters' sites in the wee hours of the morning, and update a DB on your server. Then you'll have all the information stored locally.