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rd1381:
is there anyway to get the big picture of actors from imdb for their profiles?
what i mean is i get a picture for say this actress  but its with low resolution in pvd because it gets it from that said page ,but if i click on the picture in Firefox it takes me to its original resolution and its much better and i am actually able to see the person face :).
is there anyway to configure imdb plugin to get that original high resolution pic?
is it because pvd doesnt get pictures bigger than a limit?

and sometimes it doesn't get the picture of actor at all like this person http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001721/ that play in tv series 'big love' and in the info page of the actress i click get info from imdb but it download no image.
i check the imdb plugin for people info and there download image is unchecked but for the life of me i cant get it to be check and next time i visit config page its unchecked again . plz separate imdb config for movie and for people so this gets fixed.and when its unchecked(which is always) i still get picture of some people but not all of actors.

in firefox i have greasmonkey and with just a script i hover the mouse over the picture and it show the big picture so its not any heavy programming and i may even be able to do it my self (if there was a good scripting manuals with examples for pvd and if imdb plugin was not a dll but a text file,btw why dll?)

thanks for a great app again :)

rick.ca:
This has been discussed in the past, and it must be on nostra's list...


--- Quote from: nostra on January 08, 2010, 12:33:19 pm ---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).

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--- Quote from: nostra on August 03, 2009, 01:24:32 pm ---I think I can improve the plugin in the next version
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...but he hasn't got around to it yet.

Of greater urgency now is the plugin doesn't work due to the IMDb redesign. Maybe he'll change the image part when he fixes that. :-\

mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
The process is slow and cumbersome, but it can be done.  Here's an IMDB script for people images.  Processing options are hard-coded at the beginning of the script file. 

WHY YOU PROBABLY WON'T BOTHER

If you set silent mode in the script and in PVD you'll get one image (maybe a group shot, poster, thumbnail or anything else you don't want).

If you select images manually from the script's selection list you'll be loading images into the new year.  It's a slow thing to select a single 'best' image from 800 when the selection list is 20 items and takes ~ 1 second to display a single thumbnail.

When you're "done" processing IMDB you'll have less than 20% of the people in your database covered.  Since a script cannot process a list of people (created, say, from a site index), you'll have to run a script for every site and person combination.  That's a lot of internet connections.  I have a list of 240 sites and 70,000 people in my database.  @ 50 - 100k per page, that's a lot of bandwidth and time.

Once you're processing other sites, you'll find that typos, language variations (ie. umlauts), alternate names (akas) and people with common names will make matching images to your database a hit and miss enterprise.

If you have a favorite actor / actress, choosing multiple PERSON images via a script IS NOT POSSIBLE.  Been there, done that.

AN EASIER WAY

Write an export template that creates MKDIR commands...one directory per person (probably include the IMDB ID in the directory name).  This saves you from naming your image files.

Open your file manager and drag images from whatever web page you're on, into the image directories.  Yes, you can drag and drop from web pages...maybe someday even directly into PVD.

Use the load an image option from your skin, and use the "no image" filter to limit the people list to those you don't have images for.

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rd1381:

--- Quote from: mgpw4me@yahoo.com on September 28, 2010, 12:21:56 am ---The process is slow and cumbersome, but it can be done...
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you mistook my question
i asked if that 'one' picture of actor can be saved full size not thumbnail.

rd1381:
still no answer why i dont get any picture for some actors(that have pictures in their imdb page)

and if i delete the person's pic i cant get it again with 'get people 'script

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