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n00b
n00b

Reputation: 5722

What kind of encoding is this?

MV5BMTIy*****MTk3NDcyMQ@@._V1._SX96_SY140_.jpg

etc etc? I think these are urls encoded ... but I'm not sure.

IMDB uses something like this but I need to know for another site which is ripping someone off and I don't know who.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 430

Answers (3)

n00b
n00b

Reputation: 5722

Okay, it is in IMDB format and the site in question fetches the images from IMDB.

Upvotes: 2

Chris Pousset
Chris Pousset

Reputation: 346

It looks like it could be split up as follows (periods removed):

MV5BMTIy -- primary identifier, possibly base-64 encoded, maybe the movie ID

*** -- unknown suffix

MTk3NDcy -- secondary identifier, possibly base-64 encoded

MQ@@ -- third identifier, possibly base-64 encoded

_V1 -- version one

_SX96_ -- 96 pixels wide

SY140_ -- 140 pixels tall

jpg -- JPEG encoded picture

Look at the source of an IMDB page, such as www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/. You can see image files related to a particular movie, and the movie-related image file names start with the same prefixes.

Upvotes: 2

Pavel Radzivilovsky
Pavel Radzivilovsky

Reputation: 19104

Looks like some private format. URL encodings usually have %xx where spaces used to be..

Upvotes: -1

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