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<blockquote data-quote="pirivan" data-source="post: 718852" data-attributes="member: 65342"><p><strong>Re: IMDb+ Scraper (short/long summary, imdb/RT score, US/UK rating, and more)</strong></p><p></p><p>[USER=18896]RoChess[/USER]</p><p></p><p>I apologize if my previous post came off the wrong way; I didn't mean it was really a problem with the scraper. Every scraper I have ever used has some issues matching titles. I have always felt that this was just the way that it is given that how I have named files may or may not always line up with how they are named in the database they are being matched against (whether that be IMDB, RT, thetvdb etc etc). Not some inherent problem at all necessarily with what you setup. Anyhow, I wish I had written down some of the files I had to 'tweak' names on to get them to match but I did not. I COULD re-send it all to the scanner to find out but I would rather not <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />. Anyhow, I do recall that it was a bit frustrating that all of my anime films I have titled in English and when they are matched against the DB the "match" is their Asian language title. So, I look at it and not knowing any Japanese etc I either have to A) Look up what the title is in Japanese online and determine that it is indeed a match or B) Just guess that it probably matched correctly (which is what I did). I don't know if this is a huger issue but I thought I would mention it.</p><p></p><p>So far the only real oddity I have noticed is that some movies just don't appear to be getting the correct rating for some reason. Two specific examples I have found so far are:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1213684-big_fan/" target="_blank">Big Fan Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes</a></p><p><a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1075777-private_parts/" target="_blank">Private Parts Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes</a></p><p></p><p>In the scraper big fan gets returned as having a rating of 6.8 when it should be 8.8 and Private parts gets returned as 6.0 when it should be 7.9. I have set both movies back to the importer or tried refreshing from IMDB+ but I get the same results.</p><p></p><p>There are probably other examples of this in my collection but I have yet to notice yet and it is a bit laborious to search for every movie on Rottentomatoes and compare the tomatometer rating with what MP shows <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, I hope the information is helpful; thanks again for the great scraper work!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pirivan, post: 718852, member: 65342"] [b]Re: IMDb+ Scraper (short/long summary, imdb/RT score, US/UK rating, and more)[/b] [USER=18896]RoChess[/USER] I apologize if my previous post came off the wrong way; I didn't mean it was really a problem with the scraper. Every scraper I have ever used has some issues matching titles. I have always felt that this was just the way that it is given that how I have named files may or may not always line up with how they are named in the database they are being matched against (whether that be IMDB, RT, thetvdb etc etc). Not some inherent problem at all necessarily with what you setup. Anyhow, I wish I had written down some of the files I had to 'tweak' names on to get them to match but I did not. I COULD re-send it all to the scanner to find out but I would rather not :). Anyhow, I do recall that it was a bit frustrating that all of my anime films I have titled in English and when they are matched against the DB the "match" is their Asian language title. So, I look at it and not knowing any Japanese etc I either have to A) Look up what the title is in Japanese online and determine that it is indeed a match or B) Just guess that it probably matched correctly (which is what I did). I don't know if this is a huger issue but I thought I would mention it. So far the only real oddity I have noticed is that some movies just don't appear to be getting the correct rating for some reason. Two specific examples I have found so far are: [url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1213684-big_fan/]Big Fan Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes[/url] [url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1075777-private_parts/]Private Parts Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes[/url] In the scraper big fan gets returned as having a rating of 6.8 when it should be 8.8 and Private parts gets returned as 6.0 when it should be 7.9. I have set both movies back to the importer or tried refreshing from IMDB+ but I get the same results. There are probably other examples of this in my collection but I have yet to notice yet and it is a bit laborious to search for every movie on Rottentomatoes and compare the tomatometer rating with what MP shows :). Anyhow, I hope the information is helpful; thanks again for the great scraper work! [/QUOTE]
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