IMDB scraper issue with some Italian titles

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gspinoza Offline
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It still does not work for Italian movies like "La prima cosa bella" (retrieved as "The first beautiful thing")
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gspinoza Wrote:I read it but it does not explain. Some examples:
- French movie "Le salaire de la peur". Film has an Italian alias "Vite vendute". It was not filmed in Italy. Retrieved as "Le salaire de la peur".

Probaby I should've write 'Filmed by Italy'. It's the Country which is taken into consideration from this page:
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/combined
Italy is among the countries.

The modification I sent above is forcing the imdb display title only if there is only Italy mentioned as country.

...and 'La prima cosa bella' does come up as 'La prima cosa bella' for me with the above mod.
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You're right, it works. I cut and pasted over another line.. man, am I dumb.

Thanks for your help, olympia!
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I cheered too soon.

Some Italian titles like "la prima cosa bella" and "La vita รจ bella" are correctly retrieved in Italian, some others like "Vallanzasca - Gli angeli del male" or "Il mulino delle donne di pietra" are retrieved with their English names.

I don't know what to think anymore...
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If there is no title found from Italy, then the scraper will return the USA/International title.

...and this is the case here. I have to think how to work around that.
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Can't really think of any good solution.

The only thing which I could come up is forcing original title if the selected title language doesn't equal 'USA / International', but that would lead to non-preferred results as well. In this case a Brazil movie would be displayed by its Brazilian title eventhough you selected Italy.
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For the time being I think I will stay with the original scraper, and edit by hand titles which were not correctly retrieved. Annoying, but survivable.

Thanks again for your help and dedication!
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