Object Oriented Vancouver

July 29, 2005

New Feed - movie trailers RSS (beta)

Filed under: RSS — kevinw @ 12:20 pm

Trailer: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I am a fan of movie trailers. That sounds a little odd to some people, but I really enjoy the anticipation I get from watching a good trailer. One of my favorite sites to check out trailers is apple trailers. They have a good, up to date selection of trailers all viewable in quicktime. The downside is that they don’t have an RSS feed. So I made one.

I built a screen scraper that parses the site and looks for all of their latest releases and outputs it into rss, then uploads it to polymercode.com. The feed is very much in Beta, so don’t be surprised if it isn’t readable by your RSS reader. Also - I am going to schedule the reader to scrape the trailers web site only a couple times a day - so don’t be surprised if the feed it slightly out of date with what is actually on the site.

I would appreciate your comments, and any errors you find. I’m going to release the source code for the application once it’s stablized and production ready - so keep checking back if you’re interested.

Apple - Movie Trailers RSS 2.0 Feed