select * from {table} 100) { bio = node.*; break; } } var anchors = content.a; var bornInYear = null; var bornWhere = null; var diedInYear = null; var onThisDay = []; //TODO see if there is a wildcard way of pulling these out using e4x/xpath for each (var a in anchors) { var href = a.@['href'].toString(); if (href.indexOf("/BornInYear")==0) { bornInYear = a.toString().trim(); continue; } if (href.indexOf("/DiedInYear")==0) { diedInYear = a.toString().trim(); continue; } if (href.indexOf("/BornWhere")==0) { bornWhere = a.toString().trim(); continue; } if (href.indexOf("/OnThisDay")==0) { onThisDay.push(a.text().toString().trim()); continue; } } var bornDayMonth=null; var diedDayMonth=null; if (onThisDay.length>0) { bornDayMonth = onThisDay[0].replace(/^\s*(\d{1,2})[\s]+(\w+)\s*/,'$1 $2'); //tidy up whitespace around text if (diedInYear && onThisDay.length>1) { diedDayMonth= onThisDay[1].replace(/^\s*(\d{1,2})[\s]+(\w+)\s*/,'$1 $2'); //tidy up whitespace around text } } var url = this.url; var name = this.name; var bornTime = null; if (bornDayMonth) { var daymonth = bornDayMonth.split(" "); bornTime=new Date(bornInYear,Date.getMonthFromString(daymonth[1]),parseInt(daymonth[0])).getTime()/1000; } var diedTime = null; if (diedDayMonth) { var daymonth = diedDayMonth.split(" "); diedTime=new Date(diedInYear,Date.getMonthFromString(daymonth[1]),parseInt(daymonth[0])).getTime()/1000; } var person = {name}{img}{bornDayMonth} {bornInYear}; if (diedTime) person.person+={diedDayMonth} {diedInYear}; if (bio) person.person+={bio}; return person; } //general useful routines String.prototype.trim =function() { return this.replace(/^[\s]*/,'').replace(/[\s]*$/,''); } Date.getMonthFromString = function(month) { return {'January':0, 'February':1, 'March':2, 'April':3, 'May':4, 'June':5, 'July':6, 'August':7, 'September':8, 'October':9, 'November':10, 'December':11}[month]; } Date.prototype.getMonthName = function() { return ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'][this.getMonth()]; } //the main object that uses boss to get the list (also gets peoples "death" days too) celebSearch = function(when,start,count) { //search yahoo/boss using the current day and month only on bio pages on imdb var bornDayMonth = when.getDate()+" "+when.getMonthName(); var ud = Math.round(when.getTime()/1000); var search = 'site:www.imdb.com "Date of birth" "'+bornDayMonth+'" title:biography' var query = "select * from search.web("+start+","+count+") where query='"+search+"'"; var celebs = y.query(query).results; //go through each result and start to get the persons name and their imdb info page out var results = []; default xml namespace ='http://www.inktomi.com/'; //make sure our e4x is in the right namespace. IMPORTANT for each (var celeb in celebs.result) { //discard any hits on the date of death that also match in our yahoo search //(this is going to hurt our paging) if (celeb["abstract"].toString().indexOf("Date of Birth. "+bornDayMonth)<0) continue; var j = celeb.title.toString().indexOf("-"); //use text up to "dash" from title for name var name = celeb.title.toString().substring(0,j).trim(); //start parsing these entries by pulling from imdb directly results.push(new celebInfo(name,celeb.url)); } //loop through each imdb fetch result, and create the result object default xml namespace = ''; var data = ; for each (var celeb in results) { data.birthdays+=celeb.getData(); } return data; } //run it for today if no date was provided var when = new Date(); if (date && date.length>0) { when = new Date(date); //TODO needs a well formed date including year } response.object = new celebSearch(when,0,count); ]]>