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I’ve been messing around with PHP and the Google Maps API and created a Movie Showtimes/Google Maps mashup prototype. Check it out and let me know what you think:
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Steve Roberts
October 11th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Hey that’s great, a friend and I are about to have a play with these two apis as well. Any gotchas we should know about?
John
October 27th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I really like it. It is real awesome. In fact I think it is going to be very useful on some research that I am doing. Thanks a lot!
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John L.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Nice and simple. One theater near me is missing… What do you use as your movietime source?
Any chance we could see the source and how you put it together?
Looks great. Thanks for posting.
alex
October 28th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
great web app. found it on lifehacker. thanks a lot!
Yon
October 29th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Awesome! Powerfull and clear.
Where is the Movie Showtimes API from?
Jay
October 29th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Sorry, but this is just not working for me (I’m in NY)
I get a list of movies, but no theaters in FF.
In IE, just a “loading message”
Cherie
October 29th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Jay – New York is working now.
Gerlando
October 30th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Hi, I’m from Palermo, (Sicily, Italy) and Movie Showtimes map work perfectly. I’like it so much (so I found it on lifehacker).
Really cool, I’ve bookmarked it on delicious and i post the news on my friend blog.
TKS!!!
Daniele
October 30th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Great! Rome (Italy) works!
Simon
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
This is great, better than the other mashups of this type I have seen. Would it be possible to create bookmarkable URLs of location and zoom level? Thanks a lot
Cherie
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Simon, you can now do http://hurwi.net/map/?loc=90210 or http://hurwi.net/map/?loc=New+York,NY
Zoom level will be done at a later date.
Bally
November 12th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
this is awesome..i have been wanting this forever .
Had a quick question are you using livesearch API under the hood for showtimes data or any other source i am dying to know…
thanks again for making this cool tool..really nifty and helpful …
you rock
bally
lugene
December 5th, 2008 at 5:22 am
great job…love your app! I’m messing around with flex and wanted to include something like this…i’ve noticed u have not answered the question of where are u getting the movie showtimes from…is this information private? or are u willing to give us a clue…either way nice job
Waldo
December 27th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
yeah, I’ve been looking for a movie showtime API.. whered you find it?!
Gray
January 6th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Yes, please tell us how you’re getting the showtime data!
arash
January 14th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Hi,
This tool is fantastic, how are you able to produce the showtime data? Do you have any tutorials on how someone else can build a similar tool?
Mike
January 14th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Hi, can you please tell me where you get the date for the movie times.
Thanks in advance.
Mike
January 14th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
I mean the data, not the date.
Gwendolyn Choo
January 18th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Where is the Movie Showtimes API from?
tigran
March 18th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Nice little app you’ve put together here. How are you parsing the movie list data and where are you getting the data from?
QW
May 13th, 2009 at 11:37 am
That’s a really neat app. I can already think so many ways that could be used.
virgil
June 8th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Yes please do let us know where you got the movie showtimes data from.
Ice
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 pm
hey, i want to use your XML data,and i fetch the datas at this url(http://hurwi.net/map/parser2xml.php?loc=10001),but it’s return nothing,why?
rgraw
July 25th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Been using this for a while – very handy mashup! I tend to visit particular theaters for their amenities rather than look for a movie, so would love to click thru on the movie titles for a theater to see if I’m interested in what’s playing.
Cool blog too!
Becca
August 26th, 2009 at 8:42 am
The data probably comes from the Yahoo! Movies API: http://developer.yahoo.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=1646
Denis
November 12th, 2009 at 12:19 am
looks like google changed its interface today and the mashup stopped working
Any news if you'r going to update it?
Cherie
November 12th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Thanks for the heads up. It should be working now – I haven't had a chance to QA it completely yet so let me know if you find any problems.
movies downloads
November 18th, 2009 at 1:07 am
I appreciate your kind response!
Bob
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
That's pretty slick… where are you getting your movie times from?
derek
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
definitely a fun mashup. where are you getting this data?
nelsbroberg
December 11th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I didn't see the code posted for this application, Cherie. I am a student working on a similar project (i started last night). The link is attached, but IMDB has blacklisted my free host for image hotlinking – so its not as cool looking as on my local server. Anyhow, I was wondering what PHP techniques you used to pull the data so quickly and efficiently from Google Movies. Every time i've tried scraping like that it takes more time.
nelsbroberg
December 11th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
I didn't see the code posted for this application, Cherie. I am a student working on a similar project (i started last night). The link is attached, but IMDB has blacklisted my free host for image hotlinking – so its not as cool looking as on my local server. Anyhow, I was wondering what PHP techniques you used to pull the data so quickly and efficiently from Google Movies. Every time i've tried scraping like that it takes more time.
Rodney
January 1st, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Just wanted to let you know that a theatre is missing from your data. You have never responded to any of the questions about where you get your data, so it's impossible to know to whom we can send such errors. So if you won't tell, will you at least pass along the information?
Regal Majestic 20
900 Ellsworth Drive
Silver Spring MD 20910
It is listed on other sites as being in “Silver Springs” (which doesn't exist), so perhaps that's the problem.
Thanks.
Cherie
January 1st, 2010 at 9:43 pm
If it's on Fandango, it should be on the map. It's fixed now.
Ryan
February 24th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
This is pretty cool! But where are you extracting the data from?
RyderChadwick
July 23rd, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Great job! I think this is a sign I should go to the theater nearby, I haven't been there since I was a little child. Where are you extracting your data from? I would like to do this, too, I see you haven't really had the time to reply to all the questions posted here, but I would appreciate if you could help me. Thanks!
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