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Hello,
I downloaded MyMovies Collection Management version 5.43 a few days ago because it fixed the IMDb import problem. It worked perfectly until yesterday (January 21st) – but since today, the IMDb import has suddenly stopped working.
What could be the cause?
Thanks and regards, Sven
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IMDB have made a block of reading, which means that this functionality is not going to return. The site returns empty on requests when reading as an older browser, and if reading on a later, there is now a block against reading programatically. The functionality will this time not be coming back, unfortunately. For physical media, it is recommended to use the "Inherit Cast & Crew" option, so that cast and crew only is maintained once per movie. The DVD Profiler community have a tool "TmdbInfo" which lets you read from TheMovieDB - the output of this tool can be used also with the paste feature in the Collection Management app. We will with a next Pre Release provide an update so that the paste function in the app supports pasting full HTML source code from IMDBs "full credits" page for a title.
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binnerup wrote:
For physical media, it is recommended to use the "Inherit Cast & Crew" option, so that cast and crew only is maintained once per movie.
The DVD Profiler community have a tool "TmdbInfo" which lets you read from TheMovieDB - the output of this tool can be used also with the paste feature in the Collection Management app.
We will with a next Pre Release provide an update so that the paste function in the app supports pasting full HTML source code from IMDBs "full credits" page for a title.
I’ve installed *a* TmdbInfo tool for Windows, and while says it allows you to copy, that functionality does not seem to be present. Could you link to the tool you are referring to? I want make sure I’m looking at the right thing. I always use “Inherit Cast and Crew” for Titles, but that depends on the pre-existence of a fully populated Movie record. I’m currently stuck until I can copy/paste the information to create those when needed. Any estimate of the timeline for the Prerelease of the new functionality? Thanks.
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I did eventually find the "Copy Cast" function (right click), but you may want to advise against using this tool to cut and paste.
It introduces extra spaces between the first and last names, and thus creates redundant entries into the "Cast and Crew" data in the MyMovies database when you paste. For example, pasting the cast for "Die Privatsekretärin" (IMDB-ID tt0022280), you end up with "Renate Müller" (extra space between first and last) in the database as well as the already existing "Renate Müller", etc. etc. etc. for every cast and crew member. In other words, you end up making a massive mess of the database by using this tool, if the paste operation doesn't do any pre-processing of the text strings to remove extraneous spaces. (Any preprocessing really should at least *always* strip off leading and trailing spaces. This is already a problem in the database.)
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