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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 787747" data-attributes="member: 18896">That site you linked to actually showed at the bottom that it got its info from video.de website. So might be better to go straight to the source then.<a href="http://www.video.de/videofilm/detective-dee-und-das-geheimnis-der-phantomflammen-dvd-leih/146433" target="_blank">video.de | Videofilm | Detective Dee und das Geheimnis der Phantomflammen</a>The problem is that in order to get that page, you have to rely on the video.de search engine to give you the right movie. It offers no way to get a 100% guaranteed match by searching for the IMDb tt-ID, so you are left with a fuzzy match based on title+year.They do not even support year, so you are left with just the title such as:<a href="http://www.video.de/search/overview?searchString=Detective+Dee+und+das+Geheimnis+der+Phantomflammen" target="_blank">video.de | Suchergebnis zu &quot;Detective Dee und das Geheimnis der Phantomflammen&quot;</a>This works fine for this movie in question, but what about if you have a movie that shares the same title but was made in a different year?Now you can somewhat compensate for that with the scraper by scraping the end result page, as it has the '2010' year information on there, but you are then adding a lot of pressure on the scraper to do additional lookups that might not be 100% accurate.So it will be up to Merlyn if he wants to do all the extra work with possability of bad data.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 787747, member: 18896"] That site you linked to actually showed at the bottom that it got its info from video.de website. So might be better to go straight to the source then. [url=http://www.video.de/videofilm/detective-dee-und-das-geheimnis-der-phantomflammen-dvd-leih/146433]video.de | Videofilm | Detective Dee und das Geheimnis der Phantomflammen[/url] The problem is that in order to get that page, you have to rely on the video.de search engine to give you the right movie. It offers no way to get a 100% guaranteed match by searching for the IMDb tt-ID, so you are left with a fuzzy match based on title+year. They do not even support year, so you are left with just the title such as: [url=http://www.video.de/search/overview?searchString=Detective+Dee+und+das+Geheimnis+der+Phantomflammen]video.de | Suchergebnis zu "Detective Dee und das Geheimnis der Phantomflammen"[/url] This works fine for this movie in question, but what about if you have a movie that shares the same title but was made in a different year? Now you can somewhat compensate for that with the scraper by scraping the end result page, as it has the '2010' year information on there, but you are then adding a lot of pressure on the scraper to do additional lookups that might not be 100% accurate. So it will be up to Merlyn if he wants to do all the extra work with possability of bad data. [/QUOTE]

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