The Rotten Tomatoes API Forums are full of people complaining about errors while parsing the json result. It looks like there is an error where some of their servers are responding with a gzipped json string.

urlopen() does not automatically decompress this, so json.loads() gets confused and errors out.

The changes I've made will first attempt to decompress the string using zlib, and then will deserialize the json from there.

The Rotten Tomatoes API Forums are full of people complaining about errors while parsing the json result. It looks like there is an error where some of their servers are responding with a gzipped json string.

urlopen() does not automatically decompress this, so json.loads() gets confused and errors out.

The changes I've made will first attempt to decompress the string using zlib, and then will deserialize the json from there.

Ran into a problem where Django was throwing 403 errors from the RT API because Heroku was downloading its own copy of rottentomatoes from pypi — without the filled out rottentomatoes_api_key.py file. One way of solving this is using the RT(key) format, but this introduces a vulnerability by publicly exposing the user's API key in any public git repository.

My changes still allow for a api_key.py file, but if one is not found it instead uses an RT_KEY environment variable.

os.environ.get was used to prevent crashing if the library is installed in a temporary directory without RT_KEY with a later check to see if a key was provided.

Hey Zach~

no idea if these updates fit your style, but I thought I would at least let you know I'm using your code and making changes ;) (thanks by the way!)

Mostly I was just going to update to use requests, but I ended up making a lot more changes. I plan on adding some code to cover getting more info from items at some point as well in line with what I do in our netflix wrapper.

Hi! I ran into a couple of problems trying to use rottentomatoes with Python 3.5. Everything seems to work now (the tests seem to be passing on both 2.7 and 3.5).

I tried this using 2.7 and everything appeared to be working fine, however in python 3.4 I get this error.

Downloading/unpacking rottentomatoes
  Downloading rottentomatoes-2.1.tar.gz
  Running setup.py (path:/Users/me/.virutalenvs/myapp/build/rottentomatoes/setup.py) egg_info for package rottentomatoes
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
      File "/Users/me/.virutalenvs/myapp/build/rottentomatoes/setup.py", line 8, in <module>
        import rottentomatoes
      File "/Users/me/.virutalenvs/myapp/build/rottentomatoes/rottentomatoes/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
        from rottentomatoes import RT
    ImportError: cannot import name 'RT'
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>

  File "/Users/me/.virutalenvs/myapp/build/rottentomatoes/setup.py", line 8, in <module>

    import rottentomatoes

  File "/Users/me/.virutalenvs/myapp/build/rottentomatoes/rottentomatoes/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>

    from rottentomatoes import RT

ImportError: cannot import name 'RT'

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /Users/me/.virutalenvs/myapp/build/rottentomatoes
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/me/.pip/pip.log

any ideas? Thanks for your work on this project.

Hi Zach,

This is my first pull request. Lately I have been interested in contributing to projects, so I'm looking to get a start. I added a requirements file to include the mock library, so one may install with pip install -r requirements.txt

Let me know if it's cool if I contribute a little bit to this project, or let me know if you have any ideas for improvement.

Thanks,

• Jim