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Hi,
I noticed that lately UMS cannot find IMDB entries for short movies. Even very popular ones like Hotel Chevalier.
Any ideas?
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2013-09-21, 13:50
(This post was last modified: 2013-09-21, 13:50 by olympia.)
You guys are kidding, right? It's not hidden. There is a category (group of options) in the scraper settings, labeled "Search". I hope I won't need to tell the exact option to enable.
Once you found it, please let me know how this could be more clear.
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Pfew.... Seems like the option I am talking about is even more mysterious and non-understandable. You don't need to switch search provider, you only want to enable the option "Include All Movie Categories" what is available when you select IMDb as search provider. This is not enabled by default, because it will screw up the search accuracy for automatic scraping.
...and on the question how this could be more clear I didn't mean to draft me a nicer reply. Since you aren't here for a long time, probably you don't know that I am not willing to give step by step guides in my responses, most of the time I only give a (good enough) pointer. What I meant is that please let me know how this setting in the scraper could be more clear so that you understand when you are looking at it. If the strings can be improved, I am certainly not against it.
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2014-08-07, 21:33
(This post was last modified: 2014-08-07, 21:37 by HeresJohnny.)
If I may add my 10 cents here: I had a huge problem with scraping shorts as well and couldn't undertand what people where talking about until I read the pointer about the search provider here. My problem apparently is a GUI one, since after the option titles, there's a blue arrow indicating there might be more options. I have been mouse-clicking the arrow on my XBMC for Windows with no apparent result, so I assumed that there were only options.for GENERAL / PLOT / CREDITS / POSTER. Turns out that I cannot use mouse but only keyboard to scroll... bummer. Now I found them all.
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in case if somebody else still have problems with the universal movie scraper for short movies etc...
the solution is exactly as they said to configure the universal movie scraper-->search and enable all categories or set moviedb as search engine
now...if this doesnt work PROBABLY you are trying to do that by the addons settings...
...if your answer is "sure, where otherwise?" this is actually why the problem continue and still.
remember that every SOURCE memorized your option for the scraper, so to fix the problem about finding exist short movies on imdb etc just edit your source media and configure there the scraper for all categories.
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