Pre-interview submission

movie_parser.rb

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+#!/usr/bin/ruby
+require 'json'
+require 'open-uri'
+
+# Will open ip the imdb api and return the title and year of our first result
+def callAPI(name)
+    unless name.nil?
+        # I chose to use the title_popular option over the title_exact option since
+        # we don't know the full title and over the title_substring since it seemed
+        # to return videos related to our search term instead of movies
+        json = JSON.parse(open("http://www.imdb.com/xml/find?json=1&nr=1&tt=on&q=#{name}") { |x| x.read })
+        # Should do more date validation but I will assume it's always the first 4 characters
+        return "Title: " + json["title_popular"][0]["title"] + "\nYear: " + json["title_popular"][0]["title_description"][0..3] unless json["title_popular"].nil?
+        "No movie with the specified title"
+    else
+        "Please specify a movie title"
+    end
+end
+
+puts callAPI(ARGV[0])