FilmInfo+ - A german movie details scraper with auto grouping (4 Viewers)

[RoChess]

Ok, so 3 Likes is enough desire for me, so attached is v1.1.0 with the new IMDb search system modifications.

Now for IMDb+ this worked perfect as a USA user, but I got some feedback from a UK user of IMDb+ that there might still be issues. So it could be that IMDb website gives different search results based on geographic location. So unless you are German user living in the US, there is a possability that these changes I've made do not work. I'm debugging this with UK user, but it could be that IMDb website in Germany does not make the same adjustments to break the scraper-script.

So please just let me know if it works or not.

(Grab v1.1.4+ in 1st post or futher down this thread)

 

[gurken]

Ok, so 3 Likes is enough desire for me

.. i will give it a try as far as i have new movies and let you know

 

[RoChess]

Ok, just let me know

I did just release a new IMDb+ version to fix a weird search issue, and that is if the title is not EXACTLY right and the (year) is supplied, then the new IMDb search system for some weird reason fails to find a match. So I've added a second search to try it with just "title" when "title+(year)" fails. If this works out well for IMDb+, I will update FilmInfo+ as well.

 

[este22]

hi,
ich have tried your version, but it doesn't work for me. are there any logs that can help?

 

[RoChess]

hi,
ich have tried your version, but it doesn't work for me. are there any logs that can help?

Perhaps you had the same "title+(year)" issue. So I've modified FilmInfo+ with the same fix I did for IMDb+. See if the attached file works.

(Grab v1.1.4+ in 1st post or futher down this thread)

 

[alpinestars]

hi,
ich have tried your version, but it doesn't work for me. are there any logs that can help?

Perhaps you had the same "title+(year)" issue. So I've modified FilmInfo+ with the same fix I did for IMDb+. See if the attached file works.

Hi RoChess,

unfortunately 1.1.1 is not working for me, only ~ 10% of my movies are detected. I am using this scheme which worked before: "Title (Year)"

Thanks a lot for your work!

 

[lhcomputer]

@RoChess. Thanks for your work-

I have tried both Verrsion form RoChess.

The Same result, only 10% of my movies are detected.

 

[gurken]

same prob as the rest

 

[mbuzina]

Here also - there seems to be something wrong. I can not even find common movies for which I enter the exact title.

 

[RoChess]

IMDb really did a number on their 'improved search system'.

At this point I will need some technical debugging assistance to solve it (or for @Merlyn to return ). This can be achieved by providing me MovPic scraper-debug enabled log files, or for the time being by manually doing the step the scraper-script takes.

"Some Movie Title Example (2012).avi" is first turned into http://akas.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=Some Movie Title Example+(2012) and when no results are found (with v1.1.1) into: http://akas.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=Some Movie Title Example

Moving-Pictures cleans up filenames by turning (dots) into spaces and stripping a lot of additional non-title related parts away as well via the advanced 'Noise Filter' setting. Keep in mind to just use the "clean" title to search manually at IMDb website. If you are unsure, look at the movingpictures.log file, or use MovPic config and click on the binocular icon to see what title MovPic ended up with from your filename.

Everything works fine for me testing it on a USA internet connection, so IMDb must be doing some additional "improvements" that break things for everybody.

Could be as silly as that the English "aka" text-string is translated into German automatic, due to it detecting your IP location.

If any of you get a result by creating a manual title search as shown above, then please reply to me with that full link you used as well as the HTML source results the IMDb website provides you. Use www.paste2.org or an alike website to give that to me.