Search fails

[daspri]

Search doesn't return any results. To test, I have run "php -S localhost:8000" in the demo directory. Looking up a movie by ID sort of works, but searching doesn't return any results.

[ajm1]

Confirmed. IMDB is returning 202, not 200 on requests.

[CicerBro]

I am also getting empty arrays back on every search.

[ajm1]

In the last 4 days this issue has returned. Same symptoms, 202 returned not 200.

[Leinad4Mind]

+1 here, dunno why, if anyone finds out, let us know.

[bilalswiftsolutions]

Same for me getting 202 status code with no data from imdb

[jetrosuni]

That's AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) Bot Control deploying a challenge and waiting for a valid response to it (which it never receives, and thus the request fails).

[PoLaKoSz]

[2026-01-23 13:24:17] local.ERROR: Failed to retrieve url [https://www.imdb.com/find/?s=tt&q=Opus]. Status code [202] {"exception":"[object] (Imdb\Exception\Http(code: 0): Failed to retrieve url [https://www.imdb.com/find/?s=tt&q=Opus]. Status code [202] at /var/www/html/vendor/imdbphp/imdbphp/src/Imdb/Pages.php:96)

Not sure if this helps but i was able to circumvent the problem with this simple cURL command:

curl -XGET \
    -H 'User-Agent: Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)' \
    -H 'Referer: https://google.com' \
    -o imdb-find.html \
    'https://www.imdb.com/find/?s=tt&q=Opus'

Use it like this:

$config = new Config();
$config->force_agent = "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)";
new TitleSearch($config);

[Leinad4Mind]

Thanks, that helped ;)

[ajm1]

I tried a custom UAS with command line curl and it was "challenge"d too. I will try the Google bot UAS... Still 202 for me - but I am setting it in my personal code which makes the imdb calls... should I be putting it somewhere else?

I did notice when I was playing with curl the word "challenge" shows up... but am not HTTP literate - it was enough to make me believe I was going down the right path. But was trying not to obsess.

[Leinad4Mind]

@ajm1 change this line: https://github.com/tboothman/imdbphp/blob/master/src/Imdb/Config.php#L160, should be enough

[ajm1]

Confirmed fix.
Another issue may be present will investigate and report if true.