IMDB - new layout

I used to have the same problem with my Czech movies until I enabled full cast credits (actually I enabled everything) and changed the Preferred Title Language from Keep Original to USA/International. Now all is good again!!

Some updates on my issues:

Honestly after playing around with removing/rescrapping the movies, I am not completely sure that it was IMDB scrapper which caused my issue. But I kept having the same issues: no titles/years for ANY movies that I added. I even tried removing some old movies on my database, and adding them again. Still the same issue.

Finally I decided to try with a new .xbmc folder. I renamed the current .xbmc. Started XBMC, let it create new .xbmc folder. Shut XBMC down. Copied the addon folders and Database folder in userdata folder in old renamed xmbc to the newly created one. And tried rescrapping again. And it worked.

Not sure if this works for others, but it did work for me.

I verify everything working with the IMDB scraper as of SVN 33844 (current as of today) EXCEPT the rating (1-10 scale) and votes section.

As to my opinion on IMDB, I think that TMDB is better for all future implementation except for this ratings section. So I do miss this data from the IMDB scraper!

I could snoop around in the scraper myself, but it seems someone on the forum has been keeping it up to date very well!

Just an FYI as the scraper otherwise works great.

bfreemer Wrote:I verify everything working with the IMDB scraper as of SVN 33844 (current as of today) EXCEPT the rating (1-10 scale) and votes section.

What version of IMDB do you have? I have 1.0.13 and the ratings/votes work fine.

D.

A possible bug ??!?!?!?

lucid+dharma beta+imdb 1.0.13

I have a problem when I use this scraper for adult movie.
I get only:
-Title of the movie
-Director
-Year
-Genre

and NO actor (zero actors in database after downloading movie information)
for example this movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481998/
I have an IMDB account, and I'm loged in when I do the scrap.

When i scrap IMDB for non adult movies, I get everything, including actors.
Here is an example
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083944/

Is this a bug?

It looks to me like imdb is rolling out a new layout

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1673430/

The scraper results might be different for peoples as it could be an incremental rollout, so more and more people will have the problem as of version 1.0.13 and darmha 2, imdb scraper is scraping Image + description for me, unless I am missing something here..

loverboy Wrote:A possible bug ??!?!?!?

lucid+dharma beta+imdb 1.0.13

I have a problem when I use this scraper for adult movie.
I get only:
-Title of the movie
-Director
-Year
-Genre

and NO actor (zero actors in database after downloading movie information)
for example this movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481998/
I have an IMDB account, and I'm loged in when I do the scrap.

When i scrap IMDB for non adult movies, I get everything, including actors.
Here is an example
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083944/

Is this a bug?

NO, IT'S NOT.
XBMC Scraper within XBMC is nothing to do with your account.

Dharma beta 2 imdb 1.0.13 on Windows 7 32bit, USA/international title:

I do not get votes/rating, nor cast. Foreign movies get their original title instead of USA/international.

Akira ended up as "Tokyo Shoeshine Boy" of all things, which is the name of the sound track.

I also have several movies with no title, including "A Charlie brown christmas".

Are you guys on top of this or should I prepare debug logs? Clearing the cache did not help.

It is very easy to explain why some are having issues, while others it works fine. IMDB is a huge, multi-server website. Depending on which server a particular user actually "receives" as it's deliverer it may or may not have the updated UI. Within hours or days all IMDB servers should be updated and everyone will be broken until the scraper can handle the new layout.


Travis

Could you guys please test IMDb scraper version 1.0.14?