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buah:
Any idea how to dynamically track IMDb Top 250? Could it be done with the IMDb plugin improvement, to purge "IMDb Top 250" field for those movies that aren't anymore on the list?

If not, how any of you track changes?

CAD:
Not exactly what you are after,
but have a look at http://next-flick.net/

I use this to track movies I am interested in. Also "whats hot" button to see what others are interested in.

buah:
Sorry CAD, now I see I wasn't clear.

For example, a few months ago "Rain Main" was #249 on a top 250 list, but it's not on the list any more. Other movies are still there, but not with the same ranking. There are also new movies on the list and also in PVD. Any idea how to track top 250 list changes in (with?) PVD, but not by manual comparing title by title?

Tnx for the link, CAD.

CAD:
Hi buah.

I've never looked at top250 (until now).
looking at it a quick and nasty way would be to copy and paste list into excel or notepad++
and then do a diff compare. You could export your top 250 from pvd in csv and do a "differences compare"

maybe a feature request for nostra ;)

rick.ca:
IMDb rankings can be kept up-to-date by selecting all the movies with a rank, and updating them. Even if not done very often, there will only be a small number missing from the end of the sequence. If it matters, these can be identified and added (e.g., when I did this yesterday, I had to manually add numbers 203, 230, 236, 245 and 250).

If starting with a database with no IMDb rank recorded, this method obviously won't work. The list can be copied into Excel, parsed, and imported to PVD. Unfortunately, the import plugin will not match records using the URL (which can be extracted from the hyperlinks in the list), so it's necessary to make sure the titles in the import are exactly the same as those used in PVD. This is almost as tedious as entering all the ranks manually. So in this situation, I would suggest selecting all the movies with a Rating greater than 7.9 and updating them. That may be considerably more than 250 records, but it will get all the Top 250 (that are in the database).

To "dynamically track" the rankings, a separate plugin would be required (or maybe a script, but I don't know if a script is able to interact with the database in the manner required). This would get the list and update the database with the current rank and votes. It might also add any movies that appear on the list but are not in the database. This would be much faster than updating 250 records, and could be run daily or as required. Perhaps it would have an option to run the update every n days.

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