Attempt to find degrees of separation of two actors in imdb, eg:
(find-distance "/name/nm0641304/" "/name/nm3381950/")
Points of note:
- Scrape the IMDB mobile interface, which is much easier to parse. Even still, it's not very pretty.
- Among other things, there are different URLs for actors and actresses
- For actors/accesses, extract a iist of
/title/tt1234/style links to movies. Try to exclude non-movie appearances. - For movies, extract a list of ```/name/nm1234` style links to names.
- The graph is stored in a map keyed by either names or titles, pointing to lists of links to titles or names, respectively.
- Cache the records in a Mongo running on 3333
- The search algorithm is Dijkstra, as you'd expect.
- In addition to updating distances, we also keep a running path, which might be amusing.
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