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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 743059" data-attributes="member: 18896">Using first genre should work in most cases, however IMDb tends to alphabetize genres, meaning that a Thriller with some Action will be listed as &quot;|Action|Thriller|&quot;.I've actually noticed that the MPAA rating section at imdb.com sometimes allows for clarification on the main genre, so it could be possible to add scraper support for this.Example:The Matrix (1999)
Genres =&nbsp; Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
MPAA = &quot;Rated R for sci-fi violence and brief language.&quot;
Could use the 'sci-fi' reference from MPAA to import this as &quot;|Sci-Fi|Action|Adventure|&quot; with some scraper adjustments, so that first genre selection is correct. Would need to go through a much larger sample set to see if this is reliable on more then a few movies that I tried it on.Another option would be to just take the contents of all the matches of &quot;c:\trailers\${genre}\&quot; on multiple genres (if that is possible), toss them in an array and pick a random one from that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 743059, member: 18896"] Using first genre should work in most cases, however IMDb tends to alphabetize genres, meaning that a Thriller with some Action will be listed as "|Action|Thriller|". I've actually noticed that the MPAA rating section at imdb.com sometimes allows for clarification on the main genre, so it could be possible to add scraper support for this. Example: [INDENT]The Matrix (1999) Genres = Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi MPAA = "Rated R for sci-fi violence and brief language." [/INDENT] Could use the 'sci-fi' reference from MPAA to import this as "|Sci-Fi|Action|Adventure|" with some scraper adjustments, so that first genre selection is correct. Would need to go through a much larger sample set to see if this is reliable on more then a few movies that I tried it on. Another option would be to just take the contents of all the matches of "c:\trailers\${genre}\" on multiple genres (if that is possible), toss them in an array and pick a random one from that. [/QUOTE]

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