This is nifty! I like it a lot. Would be nice, if smaller cities are also included... I am missing "Detmold" for example
Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
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Re: Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
#32Hey, this is really cool and helpful. I recently arrived in Germany and movie/cinema aggregation is a huge issue and a hassle tbh, so I'll be using this frequently. A suggestion, if I may, is to add language of the movie if possbile? It'd be great if there's any way to fetch that info and display it directly on your website instead of visiting every multiplex website to check it. Either way, thank you for this!
In Germany they use these abbreviations for that:
OV = Original Version
OmU = Originalfassung mit Untertitel (original with German subtitles)
DF = Deutsche Fassung (German version)
OmeU = Originalversion mit englischsprachigen Untertiteln (original with English subtitles)
Re: Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
#33Google already supports this. No extra clicks or ad interstitials. Just search “ movie showtimes” or “ showtimes”. It works for every town I tried in Germany.
Re: Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
#34> It’s a website that shows every movie screening in every cinema across the entire Germany.
> And when I say EVERY screening, I mean it:
Well, I checked Heidelberg and only "Die Kamera" (1 screen) and "Gloria" (2 screens) are listed, but "Karlstorkino" (1 screen) and "Luxor" (6 screens) are missing. So for Heidelberg the site covers only 30% of all screens.
The "Luxor" in Walldorf seems to be missing too.
I have not checked any other cities.
Re: Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
#35I found an entry for a city in Germany that I’m pretty sure doesn’t exist:
Re: Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
#36Hey, this is really cool and helpful. I recently arrived in Germany and movie/cinema aggregation is a huge issue and a hassle tbh, so I'll be using this frequently. A suggestion, if I may, is to add language of the movie if possbile? It'd be great if there's any way to fetch that info and display it directly on your website instead of visiting every multiplex website to check it. Either way, thank you for this!
In Germany they use these abbreviations for that: OV = Original Version OmU = Originalfassung mit Untertitel (original with German subtitles) DF = Deutsche Fassung (German version) OmeU = Originalversion mit englischsprachigen Untertiteln (original with English subtitles)
Oh, ok. Didn't know about that. Thanks for the info!
But, I still think that it needs some more clarity. Does a film listing not having any of these abbreviations default to German audio?
Just a few things of this sort.
Re: Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
#37Nice effort and for a second I thought you had fixed a problem I had, that most cinemas in my hometown have their own shitty sites and hence their screening times can not be discovered through Google, but turns out despite your bold claim this is not the case. Unfortunately there is no mention of any of the admittedly small cinemas in Tübingen. Your idea is still brilliant and I would very much appreciate if it worked as intended
Re: Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Germany they use these abbreviations for that: OV = Original Version OmU = Originalfassung mit Untertitel (original with German subtitles) DF = Deutsche Fassung (German version) OmeU = Originalversion mit englischsprachigen Untertiteln (original with English subtitles)
Oh, ok. Didn't know about that. Thanks for the info! But, I still think that it needs some more clarity. Does a film listing not having any of these abbreviations default to German audio? Just a few things of this sort.
> Does a film listing not having any of these abbreviations default to German audio?
In my experience, yes. The default is German without subtitles. I have seen the OV and OmU abbreviations a lot of times, but most showtimes don't have anything listed which will mean German.
Re: Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
#39Nice!
I built https://seattle-movies.innocence.com/ out of similar motivations, although I limited my focus to arthouse/indie movie theaters. I also produce an .ics calendar feed which for me is the most useful feature; I like scanning upcoming movies on a calendar app I already use all the time.
No DB under the hood, just a nightly scrape and process. Works fine. Sometimes the format changes and updates break until I fix them; not a big deal and the code is available in case I ever get bored.
https://github.com/BryantD/film-calendar for the curious. It’s intended to be easy to adapt to another city.
Re: Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
#40Nice effort and for a second I thought you had fixed a problem I had, that most cinemas in my hometown have their own shitty sites and hence their screening times can not be discovered through Google, but turns out despite your bold claim this is not the case. Unfortunately there is no mention of any of the admittedly small cinemas in Tübingen. Your idea is still brilliant and I would very much appreciate if it worke…
Damn Tübingen! You are the _third_ person who tells me about it! I’ll find a better source soon, hold on