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<blockquote data-quote="fforde" data-source="post: 939382" data-attributes="member: 52082">I assume you are talking about the popularity field? Holzi is right this almost certainly has to do with which scraper you used.&nbsp;If you want a little more background, the meaning of this field is actually very loosely defined. The only requirement is that more &quot;popular&quot; movies have a higher value and even this is only required for movies imported with the same script. Mostly this is used by the importer for tie breakers when for example you have two movies with the same name.&nbsp;My point is that the value could vary dramatically from scraper to scraper and it sometimes may not contain anything meaningful to you at all. With some scripts it could even just represent the position in the original search results. In others it could represent the number of people that rated it. So use the field if you find it useful but be aware that your mileage may vary based on the script you use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fforde, post: 939382, member: 52082"] I assume you are talking about the popularity field? Holzi is right this almost certainly has to do with which scraper you used. If you want a little more background, the meaning of this field is actually very loosely defined. The only requirement is that more "popular" movies have a higher value and even this is only required for movies imported with the same script. Mostly this is used by the importer for tie breakers when for example you have two movies with the same name. My point is that the value could vary dramatically from scraper to scraper and it sometimes may not contain anything meaningful to you at all. With some scripts it could even just represent the position in the original search results. In others it could represent the number of people that rated it. So use the field if you find it useful but be aware that your mileage may vary based on the script you use. [/QUOTE]

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