all imdb-get searches return no results

[whitis]

This is similar to the bug reported in:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313260
However, it appears that imdb has changed their content format again. Thus the original fix does not work.

Example:

$ imdb-get -s alien
Select a Film:

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: imdb-tools 0.9-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 1e1a99f31ec2933306456e1f141c45d8
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Wed May 15 02:23:51 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: imdb-tools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-03-03 (72 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel (hackie)]

I attached a patch which partially fixes the problem for version 0.9-1. The problem is a probably a redesign of the imdb homepage. Unfortunately, the developer didn't add any comments about the expected input, which makes it complicated to find out how the new commands should look like.
With the patch, the tool is at least able to list search results again and it can extract the title (i got stuck at the extraction of the director). Personally, I think, bash and regular expressions are just the wrong language for parsing HTML, because it also leads to escaping problems (see below) and can return very surprising result if texts contain trigger words.

Here the result after patching:

$ imdb-get -s alien
1: Alien (1979)
2: Untitled Neill Blomkamp/Alien Project (2017)
3: Alien (2010) (Video)
4: Aliens (1986)
5: Alien³ (1992)
6: Outpost 37 (2014)
7: Alien: Resurrection (1997)
8: Aliens in the Attic (2009)
9: Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
10: Alienator (1990)
Select a Film: 1
Getting details from IMDB
id: tt0078748

$ imdb-get -a -s alien
1: Alien (1979)
2: Untitled Neill Blomkamp/Alien Project (2017)
3: Alien (2010) (Video)
4: Aliens (1986)
5: Alien³ (1992)
6: Outpost 37 (2014)
7: Alien: Resurrection (1997)
8: Aliens in the Attic (2009)
9: Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
10: Alienator (1990)
Select a Film: 1
Getting details from IMDB
id: tt0078748
title: Alien
year: 1979
director: <a href="/name/nm0000631/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" itemprop='url'>Ridley Scott Writers: <a href="/name/nm0639321/?ref_=tt_ov_wr"
writer:
tagline:
plot:
genre:
cast:
coverart:
rating:

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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