News Class

The News class retrieves entertainment news articles from IMDb across various categories including movies, TV, celebrities, and more.

newsList()

Method Documentation

Fetches a list of news articles for a specified category. Returns structured news data including article metadata, content, and associated images.

Method Signature

public function newsList(string $listType, int $limit = 250): array

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Required	Description
listType	string		YES	News category (MOVIE, TV, CELEBRITY, TOP, INDIE)
limit	int	250	NO	Maximum number of articles to retrieve (max 250)

Valid listType Values

• MOVIE: Film industry news
• TV: Television news
• CELEBRITY: Celebrity gossip and updates
• TOP: Top trending entertainment news
• INDIE: Independent film news

Example Usage

$news = new \Hooshid\ImdbScraper\News();
$movieNews = $news->newsList('MOVIE', 10);
$topStories = $news->newsList('TOP');

Return Value

Key	Type	Description
id	string	Unique article identifier
title	string	Article headline
author	string|null	Author byline
date	string|null	Publication date (Y-m-d H:i:s format)
source_url	string|null	Direct article URL
source_home_url	string|null	Publisher homepage URL
source_label	string|null	News source name
plain_html	string|null	Formatted HTML content
plain_text	string|null	Plain text content
image	array|null	Associated image data
image.url	string	Image URL
image.width	int	Image width in pixels
image.height	int	Image height in pixels

Example Return

{
    "id": "ni65348669",
    "title": "'28 Years Later' Ignites U.K., Ireland Box Office",
    "author": "Naman Ramachandran",
    "date": "2025-06-24 01:58:26",
    "source_url": "https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/28-years-later-uk-ireland-box-office-1236438843/",
    "source_home_url": "http://variety.com/",
    "source_label": "Variety - Film News",
    "plain_html": "<a href=\"/title/tt10548174/\">28 Years Later</a> opened atop the U.K. and Ireland box office...",
    "plain_text": "28 Years Later opened atop the U.K. and Ireland box office...",
    "image": {
        "url": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNjgwYTI0YjctMWYzNS00MmI1LWI5YTctNmE1YjBkNDFlNWMxXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg",
        "width": 1080,
        "height": 1350
    }
}

Error Handling

• Returns empty array when:
  • No news articles found for specified category
  • Invalid API response structure
• Throws InvalidArgumentException for invalid listType
• Throws Exception for API request failures

Notes

• The limit parameter has a maximum effective value of 250
• Some fields may be null if data isn't available from the source
• Plain HTML content includes IMDb entity links