FilmInfo+ - A german movie details scraper with auto grouping (2 Viewers)

[fischy667]

Search on http://akas.imdb.com with german ip

search: Sin City (2005) http://paste2.org/p/2586529
search Sin City http://paste2.org/p/2586544

ps. I use new code in imdb+ for my own scraper, and everything works fine.

 

[RoChess]

Gawd feel stoopid, I overlooked one tiny RegExp part that checks to see if it is an IMDb search result page that is being looked at.

Attached is v1.1.2, which should work

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

 

[alpinestars]

Gawd feel stoopid, I overlooked one tiny RegExp part that checks to see if it is an IMDb search result page that is being looked at.

Attached is v1.1.2, which should work

Perfect, it worked!

I tried the following movies:
10,000 BC (2008).mkv --> OK
13 (2010).mkv --> Could not find any entry matching
25 Stunden (2002).mkv --> OK
28 Days Later (2002).mkv --> OK
28 Weeks Later (2007).mkv --> OK
A History of Violence (2005).mkv --> OK
Agora - Die Säulen des Himmels (2009).mkv --> Had to use "Agora" only to find the appropriate movie

@RoChess: Thanks a lot for your work!

 

[RoChess]

Perfect, it worked!

13 (2010).mkv --> Could not find any entry matching
Agora - Die Säulen des Himmels (2009).mkv --> Had to use "Agora" only to find the appropriate movie

Thanks for giving me the list of titles that worked/failed.

Found out that FilmInfo+ only processes a small amount of titles when results are found. The movie "13 (2010)" comes up like 21st on the list and therefore is not 'found'. The other title actually fails on the conversion of 'ä' by the new IMDb search system. Turns out they support UTF-8 now, so had to adjust the conversion of strings (same problem for IMDb+ so thanks for allowing me to catch that)

So both filenames should work now with the attached v1.1.3 (please verify).

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

 

[alpinestars]

Thanks again! Now it seems to work "vice versa" ;-)

"13" and "Agora" are now detected, but not the others that worked before.

movingpictures.log shows:
11-Dec-2012 13:25:00 Error [ ScraperNode]: Scraper Script XPATH parsing failed: Das Stammelement ist nicht vorhanden.
11-Dec-2012 13:25:03 Error [ ScraperNode]: Scraper Script XPATH parsing failed: Das Stammelement ist nicht vorhanden.

 

[RoChess]

Thanks again! Now it seems to work "vice versa" ;-)

"13" and "Agora" are now detected, but not the others that worked before.

movingpictures.log shows:
11-Dec-2012 13:25:00 Error [ ScraperNode]: Scraper Script XPATH parsing failed: Das Stammelement ist nicht vorhanden.
11-Dec-2012 13:25:03 Error [ ScraperNode]: Scraper Script XPATH parsing failed: Das Stammelement ist nicht vorhanden.

That error should not be caused by what I changed between v1.1.2 and v1.1.3 though. Did you make any changes to the scraper-script (to adjust custom settings) and make a mistake? Or are any of the other files in use (rename XML file at "C:\FilmInfo+ Special Movies.xml", etc) malformed?

Copy and paste the contents of all your files into the box at: http://www.w3schools.com/Dom/dom_validate.asp

And verify that none of them show any error.

The only other explanation I can think off is that the IMDb tt-ID to OFDb ID lookup failed at one of the mirror sites, as XPATHs are used there as well to look for a match. I would have to add a bunch of additional code to the FilmInfo+ scraper-script then to account for every possible failure scenario. Try it one more time later with v1.1.3 as it might have been just an issue with the mirrors.

 

[alpinestars]

Thanks again! Now it seems to work "vice versa" ;-)

"13" and "Agora" are now detected, but not the others that worked before.

movingpictures.log shows:
11-Dec-2012 13:25:00 Error [ ScraperNode]: Scraper Script XPATH parsing failed: Das Stammelement ist nicht vorhanden.
11-Dec-2012 13:25:03 Error [ ScraperNode]: Scraper Script XPATH parsing failed: Das Stammelement ist nicht vorhanden.

That error should not be caused by what I changed between v1.1.2 and v1.1.3 though. Did you make any changes to the scraper-script (to adjust custom settings) and make a mistake? Or are any of the other files in use (rename XML file at "C:\FilmInfo+ Special Movies.xml", etc) malformed?

Copy and paste the contents of all your files into the box at: http://www.w3schools.com/Dom/dom_validate.asp

And verify that none of them show any error.

The only other explanation I can think off is that the IMDb tt-ID to OFDb ID lookup failed at one of the mirror sites, as XPATHs are used there as well to look for a match. I would have to add a bunch of additional code to the FilmInfo+ scraper-script then to account for every possible failure scenario. Try it one more time later with v1.1.3 as it might have been just an issue with the mirrors.

Really strange, I reopened the configuration of MovingPictures and MovPic immediately found the remaining movies. I am just using the untouched FimInfo+ script (v1.1.3), nothing else.

I will try further movies ...[DOUBLEPOST=1355232034][/DOUBLEPOST]I tried several other movies with correct results (100%). I just noticed that sometimes the summary is presented in English ...

GREAT work!!! Thanks a lot!!!

alpinestars

 

[RoChess]

Really strange, I reopened the configuration of MovingPictures and MovPic immediately found the remaining movies. I am just using the untouched FimInfo+ script (v1.1.3), nothing else.

I will try further movies ...

I tried several other movies with correct results (100%). I just noticed that sometimes the summary is presented in English ...

GREAT work!!! Thanks a lot!!!

Ok, so it was indeed the OFDb mirror based IMDb tt-ID lookup. There is nothing I can do about that, except add some additional info to the log file to explain what is going on.

As for summary in English, I did not look at that part of the scraper-script. My guess is that when no German one exists, the English one is used to at least give you something. If you can verify that OFDb or IMDb.de does contain a German summary, then I can look into fixing things.

 

[alpinestars]

Really strange, I reopened the configuration of MovingPictures and MovPic immediately found the remaining movies. I am just using the untouched FimInfo+ script (v1.1.3), nothing else.

I will try further movies ...

I tried several other movies with correct results (100%). I just noticed that sometimes the summary is presented in English ...

GREAT work!!! Thanks a lot!!!

Ok, so it was indeed the OFDb mirror based IMDb tt-ID lookup. There is nothing I can do about that, except add some additional info to the log file to explain what is going on.

As for summary in English, I did not look at that part of the scraper-script. My guess is that when no German one exists, the English one is used to at least give you something. If you can verify that OFDb or IMDb.de does contain a German summary, then I can look into fixing things.

Yes, Merlyn explained on 1st page that english summary will be chosen if there is no German one.

As an example:

"Aliens - Die Rückkehr (1986).mkv" is correctly detected as "Aliens (1986)"

On both German pages are German summaries, but unfortunately I only see the English one in MovPic.
http://www.ofdb.de/plot/3,277952,Aliens---Die-Rückkehr
http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0090605/plotsummary

 

[RoChess]

"Aliens - Die Rückkehr (1986).mkv" is correctly detected as "Aliens (1986)"

On both German pages are German summaries, but unfortunately I only see the English one in MovPic.
http://www.ofdb.de/plot/3,277952,Aliens---Die-Rückkehr
http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0090605/plotsummary

Ok, I do not have the time right now to fix those type of problems, as they consume much more time (Regular Expressions can be scary) and I only have little breaks during work when waiting on things to finish running or while on hold with phonecalls.

Please remind me on the weekend and I will have a look.