2010-12-13, 00:07
Rad_ Wrote:Wouldn't it be easier to petition TMDB folks to add more image fields to their actor db? Would require more user-input than just scraping google images for stuff that already exists, but the added bonus is that the results would be more uniformly useful and straightforward to scrape....
I know thetvdb folks have been threatening to upgrade for a long time without much external progress, but don't know about TMDB.... In that case, does it make sense to try to set up a new site for this? Seems like it wouldn't be terribly involved:
* Import all actor info from TMDB, and use their ID as primary key for lookups
* Add fields for fanarts and other ratios of images, and return multiples for each when they exist....
Certainly not a trivial task, but much more useful in the long term than any clever workarounds.
Kode has put together a great framework for something just like this for the TV Logos: http://fanart.tv
It's freshly redone and moved to that URL, but he's said adding support for other "types" of info (logos, season thumbs, [presumably] actors) will be trivial once everything's ironed out....
I'm sure if we all pitched in, we could have a perfect solution in a reasonable time.
I think this is a fine idea, and I would love to see is developed! My issue with themoviedb once I started looking through is the quality and amount of their data. I think before you go down that road, you need to consider where are you going to get your information? If the idea is pulling bio, i would argue it makes more sense to add to wikipedia and pull from there than start a new source.
Actualy... How about pulling from wikipedia as a source for the actor bios? Hm.