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rick.ca:
I'm sure we're looking at the same phenomenon. To be sure, I did the same test on my database, and got similar results. Only 20 of the 100 had any images. But this doesn't mean anything close to what you're implying. There are 25,000+ people in my database. Most of them are obscure or non-actors for whom I don't want an image or I'm indifferent. There's an obvious correlation between the 20% for which IMDb has an image and those I want images for.

Of the 20 that had images, five did not have a larger image "behind" the thumbnail (i.e., the thumbnail and the image are one in the same). Examining at the photo galleries for these five revealed the reason. In every case, the head shot/thumbnail image was a crop of another image. So, I stand by what I said before. About 25% of the images available are going to be poor because they're cropped from other images. But 75% are going to be fine—if the plugin is fixed.

It was also interesting to note that of the five with the cropped images, in every case there was another full-sized image in the gallery that would have served well as a photo of the person. They may not have been head shots (some were, and were better—I suppose they were added later), but they were single portraits. Using these would be much easier and faster than creating a screen shot. As you probably know, these can't be copied directly from the gallery. But all that's needed is something that will display the URLs of media in a page (like Page Info or Ad Blocker in Firefox). Then the image can be opened in a separate tab and copied.

nostra:
I agree with Rick, that your suggestion makes more sense if you separate it into several more abstract tasks. I will note these suggestions, but it is unlikely that they will be implemented soon. What I can do pretty fast and I will is improving the plugin to get full size images (I mean full size versions of the thumbnails).

You could also try getting people images from other sources. I get my posters and images mainly from Kinopoisk as they have a good quality selection of images in there database.

mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
If you turn off JavaScript, you can right-click-copy the IMDB images with firefox...probably IE too.  When I see what looks like a decent IMDB image in my database, I use the link to get the person page and load the one I like best.

I have apache and php (with interbase funtions) installed on my computer.  I also have a pile of images.  My plan is to use the server to sort through and load what images I have into the database (one or two per person).  That will cover off most of the important people, but there will still be a few that I'll want to get images for.  45 - 55% coverage is what I expect from this.

I'll try some of the other sources and see what results I get.  I've used other sources for posters, but ultimately have had to resort to googling for hundreds of the more obscure titles.  It's enough effort that I've saved copies of 3,000 poster files to ensure I don't have to do it twice.

If I need to, I can take screen shots, screen capture and load into people.  It's not real fast, but it's usable.

It should be noted that my suggestions are presented with an example so you fully understand the process I'm talking about.  If I leave my explanations at the abstract level you may have a different idea about what I'm talking about.  I spend a lot of time explaining programming issues to non-programmers, so I sometimes forget when I'm in the company of informed people.  Sorry if I "seemed" to be talking down to you.

mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
The ofdb.de script was the only one that looked promising...until I noticed it was loading the wrong images.  When run in batch mode it grabbed the wrong itemindex from the list, but worked properly with a single selection.  It appears that it didn't find a record for the first 2 people, then used the offset from the first record it did find, so it loaded images 2 records forward...aj cook into aj walker for example.

Over the last few months, the best site I've seen for person images is:
http://www.aveleyman.com/

Unfortunately you need to handle "post", redirect and what looks like session variables.  I don't know what the scripting language can handle, but if it can post, I'd be willing to try to script it.

nostra:

--- Quote ---Sorry if I "seemed" to be talking down to you.
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No problem


--- Quote ---Unfortunately you need to handle "post", redirect and what looks like session variables.  I don't know what the scripting language can handle, but if it can post, I'd be willing to try to script it.
--- End quote ---

You can easily post with scripts. Just return the right value using such code

--- Code: ---function GetDownloadMethod : Byte;
begin
  Result := dmPost;
end;
--- End code ---

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