Method _parseActors

tvdb_api.py:1005–1042

Parsers actors XML, from http://thetvdb.com/api/[APIKEY]/series/[SERIES ID]/actors.xml Actors are retrieved using t['show name]['_actors'], for example: >>> t = Tvdb(actors = True) >>> actors = t['scrubs']['_actors'] >>> type(actors) <class 'tvdb_api

(self, sid)

            self._setShowData(sid, "_banners", banners)

    def _parseActors(self, sid):
        """Parsers actors XML, from
        http://thetvdb.com/api/[APIKEY]/series/[SERIES ID]/actors.xml

        Actors are retrieved using t['show name]['_actors'], for example:

        >>> t = Tvdb(actors = True)
        >>> actors = t['scrubs']['_actors']
        >>> type(actors)
        <class 'tvdb_api.Actors'>
        >>> type(actors[0])
        <class 'tvdb_api.Actor'>
        >>> actors[0]
        <Actor u'John C. McGinley'>
        >>> sorted(actors[0].keys())
        [u'id', u'image', u'imageAdded', u'imageAuthor', u'lastUpdated', u'name', u'role',
        u'seriesId', u'sortOrder']
        >>> actors[0]['name']
        u'John C. McGinley'
        >>> actors[0]['image']
        u'http://thetvdb.com/banners/actors/43638.jpg'

        Any key starting with an underscore has been processed (not the raw
        data from the XML)
        """
        LOG.debug("Getting actors for %s" % (sid))
        actors_resp = self._getetsrc(self.config['url_actorsInfo'] % (sid))

        cur_actors = Actors()
        for cur_actor_item in actors_resp:
            cur_actor = Actor()
            for tag, value in cur_actor_item.items():
                if value is not None:
                    if tag == "image":
                        value = self.config['url_artworkPrefix'] % (value)
                cur_actor[tag] = value
            cur_actors.append(cur_actor)
        self._setShowData(sid, '_actors', cur_actors)

    def _getShowData(self, sid, language):
        """Takes a series ID, gets the epInfo URL and parses the TVDB