tmas73 Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Does anyone have any idea how to downloag data from online sites like amazon or imdb? I want to download movie info from their servder direct into filemaker?? Any hints are welcome!! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wim Decorte Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 IMDB doesn't have an XML web service but Amazon does. Check out www.filemaker.com/xml for an Amazon example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Check their copyright and useage restrictions carefuly before doing this for any use that may be remotely commercial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmas73 Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 Thanks that helps, what is imdb using? Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wim Decorte Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 Imdb is owned by Amazon (AFAIK) so they're not letting anyone hook into that. They let you hook into Amazon in the hope you'll eventually buy some stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmas73 Posted April 19, 2006 Author Share Posted April 19, 2006 Thanks So I dl the example files, I registered with amazon and recieved a ID, configured FM and nothing works. Any clues on this? Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenton Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 (edited) There could be many things. There are basically 2 parts to getting the data into FileMaker. The first is to get the data from Amazon, the second is to transform it, via an xsl stylesheet, into the xml format that FileMaker requires for import. I always use AppleScript with "curl" in a shell script to first test getting the data via a URL. Then at least you know that part works, and you get a sample of the xml returned. Try this in an AppleScript: set myID to "Put your ID here" set the_URL to quoted form of ("http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml3?locale=us&t=webservices-20&dev-t=" & myID & "&KeywordSearch=FileMaker%207&mode=books&sort=+titlerank&offer=All&type=lite&page=1&f=xml") set theText to do shell script "curl " & the_URL Edited April 20, 2006 by Guest wish the code box was wider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmas73 Posted April 20, 2006 Author Share Posted April 20, 2006 Hi so thats the result I'm getting. I'm sorry but I have no idea what that means, I'll try to make this happening. Thanks for your help! Thomas "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> We encountered an error while processing your request. Please make sure that you are using a valid developer token and that you have registered for this service. For more information, please visit http://www.amazon.com/webservices" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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