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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 1171478" data-attributes="member: 18896">Moving-Pictures already accounts for some of that itself, then the scraper-script (FilmInfo+ in this case) can add additional logic to do more intelligent searches, but in most cases this can all be solved by the original data source itself. The IMDb.com search results for example account for a lot of those situations automatically for me, but it sounds like the FilmInfo+ data source(s) do not have a smart search algorithm in place, so then it falls all on the scraper-script itself to do this.That is a major undertaking though, but it is possible, and for all I know some logic already exists to account for this that has to be adjusted/expanded.In short FilmInfo+ would have to do a search for title as-is, and if no results return to then search for &quot;title with adaptive replacement #1&quot;, and if no results returned then to do a search with adaptive replacements #2, etc, etc... The risk is that this could add an enormous amount of extra retrieve calls that can cause issues and mass delays. It is therefore much easier if the data source handles this with a proper search method.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 1171478, member: 18896"] Moving-Pictures already accounts for some of that itself, then the scraper-script (FilmInfo+ in this case) can add additional logic to do more intelligent searches, but in most cases this can all be solved by the original data source itself. The IMDb.com search results for example account for a lot of those situations automatically for me, but it sounds like the FilmInfo+ data source(s) do not have a smart search algorithm in place, so then it falls all on the scraper-script itself to do this. That is a major undertaking though, but it is possible, and for all I know some logic already exists to account for this that has to be adjusted/expanded. In short FilmInfo+ would have to do a search for title as-is, and if no results return to then search for "title with adaptive replacement #1", and if no results returned then to do a search with adaptive replacements #2, etc, etc... The risk is that this could add an enormous amount of extra retrieve calls that can cause issues and mass delays. It is therefore much easier if the data source handles this with a proper search method. [/QUOTE]

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