Scrapper: Use english movie names for asian movies... possible? (1 Viewer)

[BigBear]

Hi Guys,

the Scrappers import movies using there original name. Now i have many asian movies and would really love it if the scrapper would automatically choose the english name for the movies.

is that possible somehow?

thanks for any help.

 

[RoChess]

I did not forget about your request, but I'm still working on the non-English IMDb scrapers. Once they are finished, I'm going to overhaul the way foreign titles are processed.

For example, I use the "English Title (Asian Title) [Year]" filenameing scheme, but this fails auto-approval match, so I'll be enhancing the IMDb.com scraper to compensate for this. If I'm unable to integrate it, without harming the current auto-approved match rate, then I will create a seperate scraper.

After I found a solution for the auto-approval problem, I plan to look into the title problem.

Solution I was thinking about are:

• Asian Title (English Title) ->> Ging chat goo si (Police Story)
• English Title (Asian Title) ->> Police Story (Ging chat goo si)
• English Title + Summary ->> "Police Story", and then inside the summary prefix with "Original Title: Ging chat goo si" and below that the summary.
• English Title ->> "Police Story"

There is an existing Google Code issue on this, that takes a different approach (better one), so I might not finish this scraper enhancement if I run into a lot of problems, but I'm going to give it a try. Stay tuned...

 

[BigBear]

Thanks RoChess, that sounds awesome! ill stay tuned

 

[RoChess]

Sorry it took this long, but I finally solved the problem of foreign-title movies.

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ummary-imdb-rt-score-us-uk-rating-more-93838/

So Chin gei bin (2003) will be imported as 'Vampire Effect'. If you prefer the original title on foreign movies, then simply adjust the global_options_original_title setting inside the XML file.