[seedzero]

I see slight chance we would approve this in the official scrapers(IMDb, tmdb). I mean going out and grab the rating from somewhere else (eg. RT).

Not even as a preference?

If not, may just have to do the reverse and get additional information from IMDB or TMDB using common.

[olympia]

No, we already have an option in tmdb to grab imdb rating.
We can't have that for all the sites.

Vice versa might be a good idea.

[booker88]

Not even as a preference?

If not, may just have to do the reverse and get additional information from IMDB or TMDB using common.

Have you ever thought about re-purposing this as a script/plugin/whatever that will scrape the RT rating for an existing library?

i.e. main movie collection has already populated with IMDB/moviedb info, script runs and just does a replace with RT ratings.

[seedzero]

Have you ever thought about re-purposing this as a script/plugin/whatever that will scrape the RT rating for an existing library?

i.e. main movie collection has already populated with IMDB/moviedb info, script runs and just does a replace with RT ratings.

I think that'd confuse users unnecessarily. There are already common IMDB/TMDB scraper components for other scrapers to leverage, it's just a matter of me finding the time to finish this off properly. Making a script instead of a scraper just makes the whole thing murky and requires two steps instead of one. Scrape the movie, THEN run a script? Why not just scrape once and be done with it?

[booker88]

I think that'd confuse users unnecessarily. There are already common IMDB/TMDB scraper components for other scrapers to leverage, it's just a matter of me finding the time to finish this off properly. Making a script instead of a scraper just makes the whole thing murky and requires two steps instead of one. Scrape the movie, THEN run a script? Why not just scrape once and be done with it?

Oh I agree. I was just scared that you weren't going to update the scraper at all anymore. And thought a 'partial' update would be better than none at all.

Please continue, there are a lot of us that want to see a return of useful ratings.

[mortstar]

Good news....

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=7...post764317

[Flicker]

FYI
http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/

[NotShorty]

The two threads above mine are pretty exciting

[seedzero]

The two threads above mine are pretty exciting

The API is limited in the number of requests per API Key per 24 hours. I think off the top of my head 500 requests per day, but to look up a movie requires more than on request, because you need the list of movies, then the movie itself, etc.
I don't think I will be developing this any longer, Mortstar's scraper is along the same lines as what I was looking to evolve to. I had some work completed but RT changed the site layout again and broke it, and there is not a full set of reliable information for every movie; for example not all movies have writing credits or classification information, so the scraper "hooks" are a moving target. Better to supplement existing information with RT ratings, the same as Mortstar has done.

[sourbob]

This is probably a stupid question (but then, I'm new, so what other kind of question could I ask) but...

I have this add-on working and I love it. Thing is, I'm using Aeon65 as my skin, and when I look at the RT ratings in many of the views, they're still coming up labelled as "IMDB: _____" How do I edit the skin and/or language files so that it says, say, "Rotten Tomatoes" or "Tomato Meter" instead of "IMDB" next to the rating?