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<blockquote data-quote="s7oneyuk" data-source="post: 284738" data-attributes="member: 62692">roopert, This is actually due to a change that imdb have done fairly recently i think. They basically hide some of the plot from the title main page so as to avoid any spoliers. Let me have a look at what can be done to overcome this. Might slowdown the grabbing process as we might have to scrape the details from several sub pages for each movie. I much prefer the movie-xml approach to grabbing details - dont like all this source screen scraping business we do for imdb - but the imdb content is more rich and accurate.to answer your other question - i think the answer is no. Once you are in the GetDetails function of the grabber routine, there is no way to prompt for the summary information you want to display from a pick list. Let me work on pulling the full summary from imdb when the spoiler alerts are seen which should be enough for you. Of course, you can always have multiple grabber scripts selected in your configuration and if you don't like the content from the 1st one you could select the second etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="s7oneyuk, post: 284738, member: 62692"] roopert, This is actually due to a change that imdb have done fairly recently i think. They basically hide some of the plot from the title main page so as to avoid any spoliers. Let me have a look at what can be done to overcome this. Might slowdown the grabbing process as we might have to scrape the details from several sub pages for each movie. I much prefer the movie-xml approach to grabbing details - dont like all this source screen scraping business we do for imdb - but the imdb content is more rich and accurate. to answer your other question - i think the answer is no. Once you are in the GetDetails function of the grabber routine, there is no way to prompt for the summary information you want to display from a pick list. Let me work on pulling the full summary from imdb when the spoiler alerts are seen which should be enough for you. Of course, you can always have multiple grabber scripts selected in your configuration and if you don't like the content from the 1st one you could select the second etc. [/QUOTE]

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