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[SOLVED] Import from IMDB Not Working
Hyomil:
A new issue with IMDb import: Original Language field is filled in with the Production Company, or "Studio" as its called in PVD, instead. The Studio field is correct, so both fields get filled in with the same thing. Examples:
"Leaving Me, Loving You" http://imdb.com/title/tt0386590/, "China Film"
"D.I.E." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517119/, "Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB)"
Removing my login data for IMDb under Preferences and restarting didn't help.
Looking through all the languages in the multi-select list, there were only a few Studios, and the earliest of them was added on 9/20/2010 7:55:06 PM PST, so the problem started before then.
--- Code: ---(9/21/2010 2:51:34 PM) Logging in...
(9/21/2010 2:51:34 PM) POST: http://www.imdb.com/register-imdb/login?
(9/21/2010 2:51:35 PM) Redirected to: https://secure.imdb.com/register-imdb/login
(9/21/2010 2:51:35 PM) Searching movie information for: Leaving Me, Loving You
(9/21/2010 2:51:35 PM) GET: http://imdb.com/title/tt0386590/
(9/21/2010 2:51:35 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/rg/parked-domains/imdb.com/title/tt0386590/
(9/21/2010 2:51:35 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386590/
(9/21/2010 2:51:36 PM) GET: http://imdb.com/title/tt0386590/plotsummary
(9/21/2010 2:51:36 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/rg/parked-domains/imdb.com/title/tt0386590/plotsummary
(9/21/2010 2:51:36 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386590/plotsummary
(9/21/2010 2:51:37 PM) GET: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386590/fullcredits#cast
(9/21/2010 2:51:37 PM) GET: http://imdb.com/title/tt0386590/releaseinfo#akas
(9/21/2010 2:51:37 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/rg/parked-domains/imdb.com/title/tt0386590/releaseinfo
(9/21/2010 2:51:38 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386590/releaseinfo
(9/21/2010 2:51:38 PM) GET: http://imdb.com/title/tt0386590/awards
(9/21/2010 2:51:38 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/rg/parked-domains/imdb.com/title/tt0386590/awards
(9/21/2010 2:51:38 PM) Redirected to: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386590/awards
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mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
I wonder if IMDB is returning a partial page....you know, when you go to a website and the page doesn't display properly so you do a "refresh"? 1% sounds a bit frequent for this, but if you're hammering IMDB with multiple updates, it may be more likely (503's come up for me about 7% of the time if I do enough connections to IMDB...but almost never on a single update).
When the next failure occurs, check the "page.html" file in the PVD installation folder. It should contain the full move or person page requested...including </html> at the end. If it doesn't then the problem is with the server (or PVD not checking for a complete page...your choice). If it is complete, then maybe the download isn't completed before the plug-in starts processing it.
I doubt that PVD keeps the TCP connection open after a failure, but that would explain why a restart is necessary to clear it. It may well be that since there is no error associated with a partial page, that extra code (ie. checking for </html> or a file byte count) might be required to verify completion of the page. Recovery code (ie. reloading the page) shouldn't be too difficult if a partial page load is detected.
Hyomil:
--- Quote from: mgpw4me@yahoo.com on September 22, 2010, 05:09:03 am ---When the next failure occurs, check the "page.html" file in the PVD installation folder. It should contain the full move or person page requested...including </html> at the end. If it doesn't then the problem is with the server (or PVD not checking for a complete page...your choice). If it is complete, then maybe the download isn't completed before the plug-in starts processing it.
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I will, but I checked page.html now after a successful import for comparison purposes and its just a bunch of symbols like
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rick.ca:
--- Quote ---I will, but I checked page.html now after a successful import for comparison purposes and its just a bunch of symbols like...
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Looks like an image file. If you still have it, try changing the extension to JPG and then viewing.
Hyomil:
Yep, it is an image file: the poster downloaded from IMDb for the last movie I imported data from. Don't know why that would be. I created a new record for another movie to see if it would happen again, and page.html became the poster for that one too.
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