Spiders: coverart

[mentat]

Hi everybody!
I'm going mad trying to set up a spider for http://www.kataweb.it/cinema.
I can't make my spider download the coverart image which comes with this text:
<img src="/cinema/rendercmsfield.jsp?field_name=Image&id=142119" width="150" border="0">

How would you handle it?
I guess there are two issues here: the relative url and the missing extension which fools xlobby... any solution?
TIA.

[S Pittaway]

i would try the support thread...

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i would try the support thread...

I think this is not a support request but a T&T request as the "supported" way of downloading coverart with a spider (i.e. <img src="(?<coverart>/cinema/rendercmsfield.*?)".*?>) doesn't work in this case.
In other terms, I'm not asking how to use regexp or spiders, I'm asking if there's a way to work around that odd url format.

Anyway, if the moderator thinks this is OT, please move it to the Support forum, as double posting would be worse. Thanks.

[S Pittaway]

Hi,

sorry, i just read my post, i dident mean it in a funny way, i just typed it in quicky

the longer version is -


Most of the posts in this thread are guides/how to's or just quick tips...

if you stuck it in the support thread more people will see it and hence, you will probably get a quicker reply.

There is a long therad here (http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3640) about writing spiders and dge is very helpfull (i got one for amazone.co.uk).

Try waking the thread up

[dgemily]

Hi everybody!
I'm going mad trying to set up a spider for http://www.kataweb.it/cinema.
I can't make my spider download the coverart image which comes with this text:
<img src="/cinema/rendercmsfield.jsp?field_name=Image&id=142119" width="150" border="0">

How would you handle it?
I guess there are two issues here: the relative url and the missing extension which fools xlobby... any solution?
TIA.

maybe the problem is because the link is not .jpg one or something like that...
it's seem to be a xlobby bug ( maybe...)

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@ S Pittaway Thank you for the long version I saw that thread and it's very useful, but I'm starting to think that there's no way to handle the missing extension, as dgemily points out, unless Steven updates xlobby...

@ dgemily I'm starting to think it's a bug, too. I'll post in Bug Tracking / Reports pointing to this thread.

Thanks to both!

[mentat]

Problem solved. The point was not the missing extension, it finally worked with the fake replace method...

I guess I'm the only italian speaking user here, but if somebody is interested in the spider for that good italian site with movie details, plot and coverart I will post it.

[dgemily]

Problem solved. The point was not the missing extension, it finally worked with the fake replace method...

I guess I'm the only italian speaking user here, but if somebody is interested in the spider for that good italian site with movie details, plot and coverart I will post it.

I don't speak italian but I'm interested about this spider, just to see what you did so, it will be easier to me, to resolve that problem, if I will meet this one....
anyway, maybe you can post your spider here : http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3640

[mentat]

anyway, maybe you can post your spider here : http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3640

Done

[dgemily]

molte grazie