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BigBear

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Hi,
unfortunatelly i have to use the new imdb design. But thank god for your scraper!
the only thing i came across today is that i somehow get the german titles... Well im in Germany. And as it seems the imdb knows that and shows
the german titles.

Even when i change to "automatically download in english language" i get the german title.

Maybe you can do anything about that RoChess?

Thanks!
 

torrinha

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Hi all!

I'm also having some issues with the imdb title language...

I'd like to use the english titles, but I keep getting the portuguese one!!
I guess it has something to do with the IP location or whatever...

For example, the movie G.I. Joe - Rise of the Cobra shows as:


G.I. Joe - A Origem de Cobra (2009)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (original title)


:D
 

BigBear

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damn "intelligent" internet... I hope theres a workaround without having to use some software that "tells" the imdb that were from the us or anything...
 

maiky

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    Yeah, i want the english titles and not the crappy swedish ones.. :p workaround?
     

    RoChess

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    I'm back, so I'll see what I can do about that. It will be hard for me to recreate, because it shows the English imdb.com for me, but maybe I can use some foreign proxy.
     

    jesseblue

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    AW: IMDb Scraper for new layout (need testers)

    Short question to RoChess. What kind of setup do you use to test your scrapers. I'd like to try and make some adjustments in a scraper but find it inconvenient to debug within the moving pictures importer. Is there maybe a certain program in which i can comfortably copy individual regular expression lines from the .xml and see the scraped information a result?
     

    RoChess

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    Re: AW: IMDb Scraper for new layout (need testers)

    Short question to RoChess. What kind of setup do you use to test your scrapers. I'd like to try and make some adjustments in a scraper but find it inconvenient to debug within the moving pictures importer. Is there maybe a certain program in which i can comfortably copy individual regular expression lines from the .xml and see the scraped information a result?

    That's what I use Expresso for, I can pretty much debug and tweak a scraper script without ever using MovingPictures. Which a lot of times is needed, because my wife is using the HTPC.
     

    jesseblue

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    thanks, will try it this weekend.
     

    twosh

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    Hello,

    "Easy" workaround for the localized language problem: replace all "www.imdb.com" with "akas.imdb.com" in the xml-script. Found the workaround on imdb.com forums, and tried it in the script - working beautifully. Attached my version in this post with version 2.0.2... Hope the version bump is OK?

    Personally I think this is really annoying from IMDB...

    Hope this helps, and hope that IMDB doesn't block this workaround...

    BR,
    Tim
     

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