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Enable IMDb plugin to do Advanced Title Search
Hyomil:
Maybe Advanced Title Search would be a good addition to PVD's IMDb plugin because, in addition to the title, you can search using the year of the movie, among other things. For example, in searching for the movie Jump, I tried jump, jump 2009, and jump (2009), but an Advanced Title Search returned fewer results. I would think this would make a significant reduction in the number of times you have to double-click one of the search results to import data, and fewer search results to look through when you did. The year you typed into PVD based on your source of information might differ from the year that IMDb had on record, but this should be a rare occurrence and you could always cancel the search, delete the year, and try again.
If you were just adding a video manually, you might do as well to search using your web browser and paste the IMDb URL into PVD with a macro program, but a bigger benefit would be had in using the File Scanner and operating like the program Media Center Master, which tries to extract the year from the filename/foldername (and actually runs multiple searches at IMDb and uses the one that returns a result). "TV Series" could also be added to the search, where appropriate, to narrow it down further (based on PVD's knowledge of the number of files).
BTW, in this case, using "Jump" for Title or Original Title in PVD didn't turn up the right movie in *any* of the search results, so I had to find the IMDb URL in my web browser.
rick.ca:
I agree. I see no reason why we should not be able to enter whatever information we know about the title, and that information be used in the search. The obvious things to include would be Year and Genre. Title Type would also be very useful, but—despite being available in the advanced search—it's not a "field" at IMBb. It can, however, be determined from the Title format. I already have a custom version (filled by Allmovies), but there should be a standard Type field. As well as providing the means to include the type in an advanced search, it would also be useful for other reasons.
This is interesting...
SearchHitshttp://www.imdb.com/search/title?title=Jump250http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title=Jump&title_type=feature23http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=comedy&release_date=2009,&title=Jump7http://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=2009,&title=Jump&title_type=feature5http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=comedy&release_date=2009,&title=Jump&title_type=feature 1http://www.imdb.com/search/title?countries=hk&title=Jump1
Other changes would be necessary to make proper use of this.
1. As you've suggested, it would be expected the updates triggered by a file scan would take advantage of this. That would require additional regex variables for extracting data from filenames.
2. The most direct way to use this would be to create a New record, enter whatever information is known, and then run the plugin. The problem with this is that if there are invisible records in the database with the same title, one of those will be made visible. (I had to delete at least a dozen invisible records before I could test Jump.) The purpose of that behaviour is to avoid the creation of duplicate records. I consider it a design flaw—which I hope will be fixed in 1.0. The check for duplicate records should happen after the new item has be selected and downloaded. Any existing (invisible) records can then be positively identified based on URL and deleted.
3. The method described in (2) should be available in some form in NMM. Assuming method (2) is available, I think it would suffice to have data boxes only for the few most frequently used fields (e.g., year, type, genre). I don't know why Original title is included in the NMM dialog—only one title can be used in the search. So the layout of the dialog should be something like...
Title:
To narrow the search, enter any other data you are sure of...
Year: (validated)
Type: (drop-down select list)
Genre: (drop-down multi-select list)
If you would like to associate this title with a media file now...
File path: (existing file picker)
daddydave:
If nostra takes this up, maybe there should be an additional field, "Exact URL", for those cases where the search misses the expected result altogether. For example, if I do a search for Swiss Family Robinson, it skips over the 1960 Disney version, even though it is the first result when searching IMDB from the browser. It would be helpful if I could just paste in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054357/
Hyomil:
--- Quote from: daddydave on August 24, 2010, 01:04:22 pm ---If nostra takes this up, maybe there should be an additional field, "Exact URL", for those cases where the search misses the expected result altogether. For example, if I do a search for Swiss Family Robinson, it skips over the 1960 Disney version, even though it is the first result when searching IMDB from the browser. It would be helpful if I could just paste in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054357/
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If I'm understanding you right, you can already do this. Paste that URL into PVD's URL field, type/paste in whatever you want for Title, and PVD will import data for the correct movie. It won't work if Title is left blank, though it would be nice if it could be.
daddydave:
--- Quote from: Hyomil on August 24, 2010, 01:50:22 pm ---
If I'm understanding you right, you can already do this. Paste that URL into PVD's URL field, type/paste in whatever you want for Title, and PVD will import data for the correct movie. It won't work if Title is left blank, though it would be nice if it could be.
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Thanks, Hyomil, I wasn't aware of that.
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