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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 1272662" data-attributes="member: 18896">The big question goes back to doesn't TMDb aka themoviedb not already offer what you are after by just using that scraper-script directly?Reason I wrote IMDb+ was because I hated the voting/rating system from IMDb as it was not syncing up with my preference. Movies I disliked would have a higher rating than I liked, and cult movies I loved were slammed with low scores. The audience scoring combined with critic scoring averaged out to a much better result at RottenTomatoes, and I had plenty of experience assisting MovPic developers by fixing little bugs in the bundled IMDb.com scraper-script. So, that is when I decided to branch out, and created IMDb+RT scraper-script for myself, and shared that with others after I found out there was interest. Then a bunch of other crap got added when foreign-language users showed interest and asked for features. Hence why it is now called just IMDb+ as it was no longer RottenTomatoes that was [ICODE]extra[/ICODE].The main reason for my own usage and why I don't look at Plex/Emby/Kodi as a serious alternative is the customized ability to "group" movies together by renaming them, but at the time the MovPic project owner did not deem grouping a priority, and I didn't had the time or resources to fix it at C# level, so figured out how to make it work via scraper-script. Then Merlyn took that concept and my work as a basis to create FilmInfo+ for German users.MediaPortal 2 however has grouping support from what I understand in "MyVideos" and supports TMDb, so that is an option if the grouping is the only additional reason to use FilmInfo+. Not sure if MovPic will be ported to MePo2, and they have some other cool new features such as Picture-in-Picture.I've not forgotten that I plan to look into TMDb as an alternative source of data for IMDb+, because they provide the ability to map an IMDb tt-ID to their info, and that is all I need to fetch the correct movie-data inside the details-node, after IMDb.com has sorted out the search-node match. Just finding time is not easy with all the higher priority items I have to deal with first, and then whatever free time I got is spent trying to relax at the moment to get ready for the next workday. COVID-19 did not magically give me more time, because I worked from home before, so not much has changed <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />Somebody can do the same with FilmInfo+, but if TMDb forces an API key that cannot be shared inside an open-sourced scraper-script, or one that is limited to each-user (such as new RT system), then crafty solutions need to be used, such as proxy based (using that for moviemeter.nl Dutch language for example), or plugin input (plan to add that to IMDb+ to get RT functional again if I cannot obtain a mass key).</blockquote>

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