[stiggy]

Hi All. I've tried searching but i haven't found a answer to this question. Is it possible to apply a custom filter to the file names being sent for search (at IMDB.com)?

I have adopted a standard filename scheme a while ago that has the movie name and at the end a underscore and the imdb id number.

Example:
Aliens.vs.Predator_tt0758730.avi

This allows other software i have written to always find the correct item at imdb.com for descriptions, etc.

Problem is, the entire string of title + imdb # often fails the search thru XBMC. If i edit the title being searched to be just the imdb number (tt0758730 in my example) it always gets the right data in XBMC from IMDB.com. I was hoping somewhere i could apply a regular expression/filter to only pass the IMDB number to the scraper/movie details import code.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks!

[jmarshall]

Yes - there is a filter applied before it hits IMDb, but it's currently hardcoded.

Your best bet is to checkout http://trac.xbmc.org/browser/branches/li...s/IMDB.cpp - see the GetURL() routine - you could grab the imdb number out directly there and use that.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[stiggy]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I need to get a development environment built for this and try it out.

[enatiello]

Looks like this thread has been dead for a while... Have there been any updates or successes in this matter? I have a very similar file-naming convention in use and it could save me loads of time if I could have access to the regular expression in use to filter filenames for submission to imdb.


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