Create Wordpress custom plugin for scraping data and displaying

**SKILLS Required:** Wordpress Plugin development, PHP, PHPQuery, Web Scraping, SQL **Objective:** Scrape Movie listings from a website and display movie showtimes in wordpress powered website. ## Deliverables **Plugin Detail:** **1)** Add SCRAPE functionality to scrape ALL movies, movie meta data, and show times for all cinemas listed on this site: [login to view URL] Hook into a CRON_JOB functionality so scraper runs on a set schedule (daily). **2)** Add SCRAPE functionality to scrape and download to web server all MOVIE POSTER IMAGES from this site and rename the images according to MOVIE TITLE: [login to view URL] (do not include the portion of MOVIE title which is in parenthesis, eg. (Indian) or (Digital 3D)). Hook into CRON_JOB to run once a week, every Thursday. **3a)** DISPLAY Cinemas and Movies using CUSTOM POST TYPES instead of regular posts. Create NEW posts for MOVIES. **3b)** A new MOVIE post will only be created if an EXISTING MOVIE post with post slug = MOVIE title does NOT exist. If a movie page already exists for a particular movie, then movie showtimes and meta data will be ***appended*** to the existing post. **4)** Movie Images downloaded will be matched to Movie posts and displayed **5)** A function to include NOW SHOWING movies will be created. **6)** Old showtimes will be DELETED. This ensures that movies which are no longer showing do not appear to have movie showtimes. **7)** A Wordpress ADMIN PAGE will be created to control CRON Job schedule and any other settings. **8)** Movie showtimes may be manually changed using Wordpress Admin if necessary. ** 9)** A function to QUERY showtimes by either selecting a movie now playing which goes to the MOVIE page, or selecting a Cinema, which goes to the CINEMA page. JQuery powered so pressing submit is not necessary. Movies and Cinemas can be stored in post/postmeta tables and a custom table called showtimes can be used for storing movie showtimes. Or another combination of tables can be used. **Note on display requirements:** Movie page shows all cinemas a movie is showing in (with showtimes). Clicking any cinema name goes to Cinema page which shows all Movies (and showtimes) playing in that Cinema. **HTML layout will be provided for pages**. Mockups are available to view now. PHP 5.2+, MySQL 5+ PHPQuery compatible web server running Apache. A development environment will be made available and a LIVE example of current plugin functionality is also available.