MMM-RottenTomatoes displays awaiting update

[airs747]

I found a (dirty) workaround.
Inspecting https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dream_horse, you can see the sidebar that used to be on the homepage. The structure is the same as before, except that the name of the div-element is different than assumed in the rt-scraper code.

So, this is what I did to get it working:

1. Go to the node-modules/rt-scraper directory in your MagicMirror installation dir.
2. Edit index.js
3. Replace the three instances of “homepage-top-box-office” with “movies_sidebar”
4. Replace the request uri rottentomatoes.com to rottentomatoes.com/m/dream_horse
5. Restart MagicMirror and you should now see the RT movie listing appearing again.

Now, this is dirty, because of the Dream Horse link. I’m think about a better way (take the first movie on the site?) and commit to github. But for now we can at least enjoy the movie listings again.

[sdetweil]

@airs747 said in MMM-RottenTomatoes displays awaiting update:

’m think about a better way (take the first movie on the site?) and commit to github

find the github repo for the module you fixed,
fork it (now YOU have a linked ‘copy’)

make the same changes, commit to YOUR copy
and then offer a Pull Request (new pull request button) to the source to fix the problem for all

[4r3st3r]

Hi, thanks for all the help so far! When I cloned the parnic’s rt-scraper and MMM-RottenTomatoes fork it still just displayed “awaiting update”. Has anyone else managed to get this module fixed?

[rdemets]

@airs747 Hi. I tried that, but I didn’t find any instance of homepage-top-box-office in index.js. I can see in the code source the movies_sidebar, but I don’t know where to place it. Can you please give more details about what you did ? I’ve installed RottenTomatoes via parnic code, and the rt-scrapper linked to it. Thank you very much.

[rdemets]

@tomyboy96 Same here, did you get it to work ? Thanks

[tomyboy96]

@rdemets
Nope… still nothing…

[lavolp3]

@sdetweil @airs747
There is already a fix that is PRd to the rt-scraper module. Unfortunately since February already.
The problem is that it would need to be merged and published as an npm module to be properly installed here.

[tomyboy96]

@lavolp3

Is this something that can be installed manually?

[lavolp3]

@tomyboy96 I would try to overwrite index.js with the one from the PR.

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// parses the HTML body that the request operation received
// uses the cheerio package to achieve this
function parseRottenTomatoesHTML(fileData) {
    var cheerio = require("cheerio");
    // prep the return object
    var allTomatoData = { openingThisWeek: [ ]
                           , boxOffice: [ ]
                           , comingSoon: [ ] };
    var errorFlag = true;
    // sanity check that this is rotten tomatoes web html
    if (fileData.indexOf('Rotten Tomatoes') != -1) {
        // set error flag to false for passing sanity check
        errorFlag = false;
        // load the html into the cheerio doc
        var fullDoc = cheerio.load(fileData);
        // find the stub for movies opening this week
        var openingThisWeekDoc = cheerio.load(fullDoc('[id="opening-this-week"]').html());        
        // iterate through movies and strip useful parts, add each to return object
        openingThisWeekDoc('tr').each(function() {
            var movieDoc = cheerio.load(openingThisWeekDoc(this).html());
            var movieMeter = movieDoc('.media-lists__td-rating').text().trim();
            var movieTitle = movieDoc('.media-lists__td-title').text().trim();
            var movieDate  = movieDoc('.media-lists__td-date').text().trim();
            var movieObj = {
                meter: movieMeter, 
                title: movieTitle, 
                date: movieDate
            };
            allTomatoData.openingThisWeek[allTomatoData.openingThisWeek.length] = movieObj;
        });    
        // find the stub for top box office this week            
        var topBoxOfficeDoc = cheerio.load(fullDoc('[id="top-box-office"]').html()); 
        // iterate through movies and strip useful parts, add each to return object        
        topBoxOfficeDoc('tr').each(function() {
            var movieDoc = cheerio.load(topBoxOfficeDoc(this).html());
            var movieMeter = movieDoc('.media-lists__td-rating').text().trim();
            var movieTitle = movieDoc('.media-lists__td-title').text().trim();
            var movieGross = movieDoc('.media-lists__td-date').text().trim();
            var movieObj = {
                meter: movieMeter, 
                title: movieTitle, 
                gross: movieGross
            };
            allTomatoData.boxOffice[allTomatoData.boxOffice.length] = movieObj;            
        });  
        // find the stub for top movies coming soon
        var topComingSoonDoc = cheerio.load(fullDoc('[id="coming-soon-theaters"]').html());
        // iterate through movies and strip useful parts, add each to return object         
        topComingSoonDoc('tr').each(function() {
            var movieDoc = cheerio.load(topComingSoonDoc(this).html());
            var movieMeter = movieDoc('.media-lists__td-rating').text().trim();
            var movieTitle = movieDoc('.media-lists__td-title').text().trim();
            var movieDate  = movieDoc('.media-lists__td-date').text().trim();
            var movieObj = {
                meter: movieMeter, 
                title: movieTitle, 
                date: movieDate
            };
            allTomatoData.comingSoon[allTomatoData.comingSoon.length] = movieObj;            
        });                  
    }
    // return error flag and the data  
    return {error: errorFlag, data: allTomatoData};
}

// makes a call to get the HTML from the rotten tomatoes front page
// uses the request package to achieve this
function requestRottenTomatoesHTML(callback) {
    var request = require("request");
    request({ uri: "http://www.rottentomatoes.com" }, 
        function(error, response, body) {
            if (!error) {
                var parsedData = parseRottenTomatoesHTML(body);
                if (parsedData.error == false)
                    callback(false, parsedData.data);
                else
                    callback(true, null);
            }
            else {
                callback(true, null);
            }
        });
}

// the export function exposed via the package
// uses a callback since the request call itself is asynchronous
exports.getRottenTomatoesScraperData = function(callback) {
    requestRottenTomatoesHTML(callback);
}
  
//  --- the end ---

That would be the manual DIRTY way. But since the PR is from Feb and not merged yet it is getting more unlikely.
Don’t know if this has been tried already

[tomyboy96]

@lavolp3

Nope not working…

if you change the id’s to “movies_sidebar”
and uri: “http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dream_horse”
It seems like it’s loading again. but the loading is not correct.

would be super good if there would be a way to manually add the PR just replacing the index do not work.

[sdetweil]

@lavolp3 where did the pr come from? what repo? git clone that repo to install and test

[lavolp3]

@sdetweil it’s old stuff as I see, has been explained before already
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/70295

When I install @parnic’s fork,

1. I have a node.js error since the NodeHelper has not been declared in this file.
   This can be resolved by adding

var NodeHelper = require("node_helper")

below the declaration of the rt-scraper.

2. then see only the headers and no movies as has been described above.

That’s the problem with scrapers. Small cosmetic changes in the website break them.

[lavolp3]

RT has obviously changed their content more towards TV shows since cinemas are not well visited at the moment.

[sdetweil]

@lavolp3 yeh, one of the TV show scrapers failed too for similar cause.

[tomyboy96]

Still nothing new here?

Saw that https://github.com/parnic/MMM-RottenTomatoes has gotten a new push but still seems like the same problem.

[lavolp3]

@tomyboy96 same for me. No movies showing up.

[lavolp3]

@lavolp3 I tried to dig a bit deeper into the rt-scraper module again and it seems the references for the elements are all different from the current page.
The output of the module is empty and therefore we only see the headlines and no content.
I don’t think I’ll be able to fix it.