Movie Library

VHS tapes:

1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
   018713050014
2. An Affair to Remember (1957)
   086162124037
3. West Side Story (1961)
   027616126603
4. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
   097360111330
5. Star Wars (1977)
   086162113031
6. Alien (1979)
   086162036958
7. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
   086162142536
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
   097360137637
9. Time Bandits (1981)
   092091156759
10. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
    086162147838
11. Wall Street (1987)
    086162165337
12. Rain Man (1988)
    027616164834
13. Dead Poets Society (1989)
    012257947038
14. Field of Dreams (1989)
    096898477239
15. Parenthood (1989)
    096898092135
16. Say Anything... (1989)
    086162170133
17. Dances with Wolves (1990)
    023568087689
18. Thelma & Louise (1991)
    027616235534
19. Forever Young (1992)
    085391257134
20. Jurassic Park (1993)
    096898140935
21. Rudy (1993)
    043396537231
22. Mallrats (1995)
    096898261937
23. Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
    786936577938
24. Rob Roy (1995)
    027616522283
25. Fargo (1996)
    780063869331
26. In Love and War (1996)
    794043455933
27. Jerry Maguire (1996)
    043396825338
28. Liar Liar (1997)
    096898292634
29. Men in Black (1997)
    043396826533
30. Titanic (1997)
    097363348139
31. City of Angels (1998)
    085391704638
32. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
    786936091632
33. Runaway Bride (1999)
    097363238430
34. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
    024543000921
35. Erin Brockovich (2000)
    096898571036
36. High Fidelity (2000)
    786936137088
37. The Patriot (2000)
    043396057029
38. The Perfect Storm (2000)
    085391858430
39. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
    085392359134
40. The Pianist (2002)
    096896106636

plus: Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1997)

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• ShareLifeThruArt and the closet-librarian topic nearby, MoviesDanSaw

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I started by scanning tapes with my Cuecat. Some of the barcodes were covered up, so I used yahoo movie pages like this one to get the UPC codes. The result is vhscodes. Then I wrote movieIndex.py which looks up movies in a UPC database (thanks, Google!) to get the title then and IMDB to get the year etc.

I took a few notes in the #swig IRC channel while I was at it.

Hmm... the quick-n-dirty xml parsing techniques in movieIndex.py might merit an advogato blog article. But it's late. Maybe another day, maybe not