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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 1263525" data-attributes="member: 18896">The reason that works is because FilmtipSet scraper relies on the FilmtipSet website during the search-node, so it has all that information available during the details-node.IMDb+ relies on IMDb.com website during the search-node, so it is NOT possible to use any of that, unless FilmtipSet website exposes a way to do a search on their system providing nothing but the IMDb tt-ID. You have to realize on the FilmtipSet details page for a movie they show the tt-ID, so the FilmtipSet scraper can obtain it during its details-node processing, which is what that fix was for, but that is not possible for IMDb+ scraper.There would be three solutions:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Find a way for FilmtipSet to bring back the capabilities that 'nyheter24.se' provided by offering an IMDb tt-ID search to get FilmtipSet movie-ID, but they seem hesitant to do that, even though they have all the data and it would not take them long to fix this. IMDb tt-IDs are very strict in format, especially if you force the "tt" prefix to remain during searching, and then they just have to adjust SQL query for it and print out results. Would even take the slowest developer on their end about an hour to add. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Create a proxy site that scrapes all of FilmtipSet to create an IMDb tt-ID to FilmTip movie-ID database, and then allow itself to be queries (if I ever find free time, which clearly isn't going to be soon, then I will humor this request, but think more towards summer 2020) </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Modify IMDb+ to rely on FilmtipSet during search-node and thereby breaking main purpose of it (don't have time or interest for this, but you are free to find somebody else willing as it is all open-source)</li> </ol>On short notice, you can switch to FilmTipSet scraper, convince them to work on #1, find somebody to do #3, or be patient for #2.If you can talk 'vuego' into modifying his FilmTipSet scraper, then there is one hacky solution and that is to scan your entire collection in with FilmTipSet scraper, and if it stored the IMDb tt-ID into the designated Moving-Pictures database field, then you can use the IMDb+ plugin to forcefully take scraper-script ownership and apply all the benefits of IMDb+ to each of your movies. You can configure it to ignore updating title+summary, except when you want to rely on the IMDb+ title rename for series (or custom entries). Just that this is a lot of manual adjusting then, especially for each new movie, but it could potentially work.</blockquote>

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