film_list

The East (2013)
Shutter island
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
The Departed
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Only God Forgives
You've got mail
The Draughtsman's Contract
The Deal
Winter's Bone
A World Apart (1988)
We need to talk about Kevin

Gemfile

source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'nokogiri'

IMDB.rb

require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'

@films=[]
@not_found=[]

def get_film_path(film_name)
	film_search_url= URI.escape('http://www.imdb.com/find?q='+film_name+'&s=all')
	doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(film_search_url))

	results= doc.xpath('//*[@id="main"]/div/div[2]/table/tr/td[2]/a')

	if results.first
		first_result_content= results.first.content()
		# strip out (1999) and check if it matches
		match1= first_result_content.casecmp(film_name.sub(/\(\d+\)/,'').strip) == 0
		# add 'The ' and check if it matches
		match2= first_result_content.casecmp("The #{film_name}".sub(/\(\d+\)/,'').strip) == 0

		return results.first.attr('href') if match1||match2
	end
end
def get_film_meta(path)
	film_full_url= URI.escape('http://www.imdb.com'+path)
	doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(film_full_url))

	score = doc.xpath('//*[@id="overview-top"]/div[3]/div[1]').first
	name= doc.xpath('//*[@id="overview-top"]/h1/span[1]').first.content
	genres = doc.xpath('//span[@itemprop="genre"]')
	
	return {
		:score => score ? score.content : nil, 
		:name => name,
		:genres => genres
	}
end

def find_alternatives(film_name)
	film_search_url= URI.escape('http://www.imdb.com/find?q='+film_name+'&s=all')
	doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(film_search_url))

	alternatives=[]
	doc.xpath('//*[@id="main"]/div/div[2]/table/tr/td[2]/a').each do |e| 
		alternatives.push e.content
	end
	return alternatives
end

def film_not_found(film_name)
	alternatives= find_alternatives(film_name)
	p
	p " Didn't find '#{film_name}', did you mean: '"
	alternatives.each {|film| p "    #{film}"}
	p
	@not_found.push film_name
end

File.readlines('film_list').each do |raw_film_name|
	raw_film_name.strip!
	path = get_film_path(raw_film_name)
	if (!path.nil? && path.include?('/title/')) #if the path is for a film title..

		meta= get_film_meta(path)
		score= meta[:score]
		film_name= meta[:name]

		p "#{film_name}: #{score}"

		if score
			@films.push meta
		else
			film_not_found raw_film_name
		end
	else
		film_not_found raw_film_name
	end
end


puts 
puts 
puts "<<<< RESULTS >>>> "

@films = @films.sort! {|x, y| x[:score] <=> y[:score] }
@films.reverse.each do |film| 

	genres_string= film[:genres].nil? ? '' : film[:genres].collect {|e| "#"+e}.join(" ")
	p "#{film[:name]}: #{film[:score]} #{genres_string}"
end

puts 
puts
puts "=== Not Found... ==="
@not_found.each {|film| p film}

puts
puts
puts "=== FINISHED === "

It's a quickly hashed together script but works as of today (when IMDB change their site layout it'll probably break).