Hi there. I am interested in how the IMDB's Top 250 list has changed
over the last few years. What are my options for getting my hands on
snapshots of the IMDB's Top list, at least one for every month going
back about the last 10 years? I don't suppose there is a nice Excel
spreadsheet lurking somewhere, but maybe it's conveniently available
through IMDB Pro or on Usenet or something? |
Request for Question Clarification by
sublime1-ga
on
10 Mar 2006 16:59 PST
frodofan...
You can see the changes from Jun 06, 2004 to Apr 01, 2005
on this page from the Internet Archives site:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.imdb.com/chart/top
Since the Wayback Machine, as it's called, stores and searches
archived pages by the URL, it may be that earlier archives of
the same content at IMDB exist, but under a different URL.
In order to locate them, you'd have to know the URL under
which the Top 250 was listed prior to Jun 06, 2004, if such
a page existed on the site prior to that time.
If this satisfies your interests, let me know and I'll post
it as a formal answer.
sublime1-ga
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Clarification of Question by
frodofan-ga
on
10 Mar 2006 18:09 PST
Thanks a lot. That is really useful but it seems like
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://us.imdb.com/top_250_films
should give all the old lists, yet a couple of years are missing entirely.
Do you know, for instance, where some 1998 and 1999 lists might be archived?
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Request for Question Clarification by
sublime1-ga
on
11 Mar 2006 13:30 PST
frodofan...
They may be under yet another URL which was utilized during
those particular years. What it might be, I don't know.
sublime1-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
sublime1-ga
on
11 Mar 2006 13:49 PST
Interestingly, a tailored search for ALL pages for www.imdb.com
for the year of 1999 turns up only 3 pages for the entire site:
http://web.archive.org/1999*/http://www.imdb.com*
1998 turns up none:
http://web.archive.org/1998*/http://www.imdb.com*
us.imdb.com for '98 shows none:
http://web.archive.org/1998*/http://us.imdb.com*
us.imdb.com for '99 shows only 5 pages:
http://web.archive.org/1999*/http://us.imdb.com*
Perhaps, either they weren't updating that section
of the site during that time, or they had a robot.txt
file which prevented the Wayback Machine from indexing
and archiving the site.
sublime1-ga
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Clarification of Question by
frodofan-ga
on
14 Mar 2006 00:33 PST
Yup, i tried that too. Thanks for your help though. I think I am going
to have to crawl through rec.arts.movies.lists+surveys (which is
probably more trouble than it's worth).
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