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nostra:
Please try this updated plugin http://www.videodb.info/bin/plugins/imdb_people.zip

P.S. I will update the download page a bit later

rick.ca:
A few problems...

1. Updating http://imdb.com/name/nm0520859 changes his name to "<small>Filmography by Genre for </small><a class="main" href="/name/nm0520859/">Livio Lorenzon</a>" and adds http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0520859/filmogenre to the URL. I've only seen this once in limited testing, so I see no pattern.

2. Character names in filmographies that are linked to character pages are not handled correctly. The first part of the link (<a onclick=") instead of the character name is being retrieved.

3. Last modified is not updated for all kinds of changes. Changing a photo or updating a filmography, for example, does not update the time.

AimHere:
Hi again,

Since the IMDB changes that broke the IMDB People plugin, I've noticed other odd behavior from the plugin besides that which has been mentioned previously.

I've been using IMDB to import filmographies for all the people in my database for a long time now. But recently, when I run the plugin on a person who already has a filmography (with the option "Merge filmographies" checked in Preferences) in order to update them, the plugin creates a duplicate entry in the filmography for a few movies; the titles, original titles, and release years all match exactly, too. Usually these movies are not in my master Movies list, so as an experiment I've clicked on them in People view to make them visible in Movies view. And I've found that of the two identical movies, one has a correctly-formatted IMDB URL ... but the other has a bizzare, malformed URL with some extra stuff tacked onto the end, something like this:


--- Code: ---http://imdb.com/title/tt0076759/" onclick="(new Image()).src='/rg/filmo/title-title/images/b.gif'
--- End code ---

What's more, the two movie entries often have lists of actors associated with them, but different lists (some people present in one are missing from the other).

Also, I've been occasionally finding Movie View entries (for movies I've actively added to my database) with similarly-malformed IMDB URLs in their URL fields... in addition to a correctly formatted IMDB URL!

In further testing, after clicking the duplicates in the Person filmography to make them both visible in Movies view, I then CTRL-Delete them both, to completely remove them from the database... then switch back to People view, run the IMDB People plugin import again, re-adding the movie to the filmography... and click on it to view it in Movies view. Lo and behold, the URL is correct!

So now, I'm wondering whether the "old" filmography entries (the ones existing prior to my recent attempts at updating them, not the new duplicates) actually had malformed URLs all along, and I simply didn't know about it because they were hidden in Movies view? And maybe at some point the IMDB plugin was malfunctioning, or simply receiving bad data from IMDB itself???

I don't know how the malformed URLs were getting into my "real" Movie View entries (the ones I added myself, not clicked on in People View)... unless, maybe, the IMDB People plugin was at some point trying to merge imported filmographies, saw an existing Movie entry, and added the malformed URL to it (even though it already had an IMDB URL associated with it) rather than creating a duplicate movie record? Bizzare...

Aim(my brain hurts)here

nostra:
It seems that getting links for some entries in filmographies was already corrupt for some time, but nobody knew :( The only thing you can do is to rewrite all filmographies all over again.

P.S. The imd people plugin is now updated to 0.2.2.2 fixed the 2 issues found by Rick

nostra:

--- Quote ---3. Last modified is not updated for all kinds of changes. Changing a photo or updating a filmography, for example, does not update the time.
--- End quote ---

I need to fix this in the program itself.

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