themoviedb scraper now partly broken

Benjie · 2010-05-03 07:44

Not working for me as of 5 minutes ago, picking up maybe 5-10% of thumbnails and cant find any more thumbnails when adding individually.

Major pain, is there any other way to reliably scrape the info?

Tsuris · 2010-05-03 10:26

The info should be updated as of 24hrs of the correction, according to the time it was actually updated (see here for the last post where travis bell says)

Quote:Update was just deployed. In approx. 24 hours, as the cached items get refresh things should start working again.

as of
5/03/2010 01:49:08
(never did much like waiting myself but thanks to everyone helping with the fix Smile

)

WeirdH · 2010-05-03 12:56

Confirmed working again for Xbox, made my day. Thanks to those involved!

AaronD · 2010-05-03 12:57

Cast is now having a similar problem to images.

XBMC expects the person element to look like:
<person {some stuff} name="someone" character="someone" job="Actor" ...

Whereas TMDB have changed their API and it is now appearing as:
<person job="Actor" character="someone" url="somewhere" name="someone" ...

So the regex is not matching.

Second Tier · 2010-05-03 13:10

aptalca Wrote:*********IMPORTANT - - - PLEASE READ***********

I just talked to Travis who runs tmdb, he wasn't aware of the problem we were having. The change in their api was not supposed to break the scrapers. He will update his api so the original (unmodified) tmdb scrapers should work after the update.

Keep in mind that whatever is currently cached in their system will take about 24 hours to update.

If your scraper is currently not working, do not do anything, just wait a day, it will start working as before.

If you already modified your scraper, you are probably going to have to revert back to the original one by tomorrow.

So I unwisely did not create a tmdb.xml.old before applying the modified version posted earlier in this thread. Can someone pastebin a default version of the common tmdb.xml so I can revert back?

Thanks in advance!

**sho** · 2010-05-03 13:26

The beauty of open source
http://trac.xbmc.org/browser/trunk/addon...g/tmdb.xml

sa5cha · 2010-05-03 13:41

Hello together,

im an absolut noob in xbmc. I just started a few days ago. Here in Croatia is the supprt not so well, and i hope my english is good enough Confused

So i must ask this: All i have to do is just wait "1 day" and the scraper will works fine again? Cuz i got covers from imdb BUT no fanarts since 2 days=(

I have over 400 Movies and don't want to loose my libary...

Thx 4 answer

AaronD · 2010-05-03 14:24

A question for those more knowledgeable on regex or XBMC scraper's than me. Why is that the following query matches.

Code:

<thumb>(.*?)url="([^"]*)" width="[^"]*" size="mid"(.*?)</thumb>

But this query doesn't

Code:

<thumb>(.*?)url="([^"]*)".*?size="mid"(.*?)</thumb>

The first matches because it finds the width attribute, but in the second regex I'm trying to mask out anything between the URL close quote and the size attribute. This always fails. Frustrating, because this would make it simple to take out the width parameter whether it was there or not. But my regex knowledge is very limited.

Second Tier · 2010-05-03 14:38

sho Wrote:The beauty of open source
http://trac.xbmc.org/browser/trunk/addon...g/tmdb.xml

Beautiful indeed! Muchas muchas!!

splobber · 2010-05-03 15:05

I'm getting this problem as well and not able to get fanart scraped. I'm assuming I just have to sit tight? I'm using XBMC Live 9.11.

The other problem that I am noticing is that in the synopsis I get the movie description, but they all have "Fullsummary»" at the end of the film blurb. I'm guessing this is a separate issue, but how do I fix it? I can't seem to find much in the way of info.

Benjie Junior Member Posts: 4 Joined: Mar 2010 Reputation: 0	2010-05-03 07:44 Post: #31 Not working for me as of 5 minutes ago, picking up maybe 5-10% of thumbnails and cant find any more thumbnails when adding individually. Major pain, is there any other way to reliably scrape the info?
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WeirdH Fan Posts: 326 Joined: Jul 2006 Reputation: 1	2010-05-03 12:56 Post: #33 Confirmed working again for Xbox, made my day. Thanks to those involved!
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AaronD Senior Member Posts: 252 Joined: Jan 2007 Reputation: 0 Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates	2010-05-03 12:57 Post: #34 Cast is now having a similar problem to images. XBMC expects the person element to look like: <person {some stuff} name="someone" character="someone" job="Actor" ... Whereas TMDB have changed their API and it is now appearing as: <person job="Actor" character="someone" url="somewhere" name="someone" ... So the regex is not matching.
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sho Team-XBMC Member Posts: 4,133 Joined: May 2004 Reputation: 3	2010-05-03 13:26 Post: #36 The beauty of open source http://trac.xbmc.org/browser/trunk/addon...g/tmdb.xml Always read the XBMC online-manual, FAQ and search the forum before posting. Do not e-mail XBMC-Team members directly asking for support. Read/follow the forum rules. For troubleshooting and bug reporting please make sure you read this first.
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Second Tier Junior Member Posts: 6 Joined: Apr 2010 Reputation: 0	2010-05-03 14:38 Post: #39 sho Wrote:The beauty of open source http://trac.xbmc.org/browser/trunk/addon...g/tmdb.xml Beautiful indeed! Muchas muchas!!
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