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AllRovi movie script
rick.ca:
--- Quote from: Ivek23 on January 07, 2014, 11:56:04 am ---Notice:
AllRovi script does not work anymore.
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It's topic not very visible on the Scripts and Templates board, so I'm announcing it here. Thanks to Ivek, we once again have access to most Allmovie data.
For those not familiar with Rovi/Allmovie, its consistent quality of Synopsis and Reviews is much better than the user-provided crap on IMDb.
--- Quote from: Ivek23 on July 09, 2011, 04:49:32 pm ---Now for all former AllMovie fans here is new AllRovi script, based on AllMovie script and with the help of other scripts, especially the new Italian script. The script gets most of the movie information currently available at the new AllRovi site, including:
* Basic info; Title, Year, Director, Genre, Run time, Release, etc.
* Poster (not good quality, but sufficient for a thumbnail)
* Rovi rating
* Synopsis
* Review
* Sub-Genres and Themes
* MPAA rating and Flags
We (co-authors Ivek23 and rick.ca) have a faint hope more data that was available at the old AllMovie site will be added to the new AllRovi site. If that happens, we'll update the script to include it.
The most current version of the script is always attached to this message. Details of changes are documented in the script, and may be commented on in messages posted to this topic. Please post any comments or questions concerning this script to this topic.
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rick.ca:
The script is now very near completion. A "Release Candidate," if you like. I've added a list of it's unique features to it's description...
--- Quote from: Ivek23 on July 09, 2011, 04:49:32 pm ---...and adds some special features:
* Full Cast and Crew listings with links to Rovi bios.
* Support for separate Attributes, Themes and Moods, even though Rovi now lumps all these together in Characteristics.
* Mood links to old AllMovie mood pages (description of the mood and a list of "major works") found in the Web Archive.
* Links to Rovi's Genre and Sub-Genre pages (with description, significant works and 'most visited' films).
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rick.ca:
--- Quote from: rick.ca on August 02, 2011, 11:54:17 pm ---The script is now very near completion. A "Release Candidate," if you like.
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Who an I kidding? This is not Microsoft. The script is complete and has been released to the auto-update system. If there you have any problems or suggestions for improvement, please post them here.
minolotus:
Even the script is now officially released, I would like to add two comments on the latest version.
I think the new update field is a really good idea (it would be nice if a similar field for the imdb script exists ... but that’s another point). Unfortunately, the date format is not similar to the date format of the "added" and "modified" fields. Would it be possible that the fields use the local settings of the respective computer?
I have another issue with the "modified" field. I am not sure if this is related to the script or a more general problem of PVD. I rerun the script to get the synopsis to a custom field. The script put the data to the field but the "modified" field wasn’t updated. I checked this with the "characteristics" and the "flags" field (removing the data and rerunning the script). In both cases the "modified" field wasn’t updated?
Ivek23:
--- Quote ---I think the new update field is a really good idea (it would be nice if a similar field for the imdb script exists ... but that’s another point). Unfortunately, the date format is not similar to the date format of the "added" and "modified" fields.
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"Added" field does not change, remaining from the date of entry when the entry was added, while in the "Modified" field is changing the date in it with every change made to any of the saved in PVD database.
--- Quote ---I have another issue with the "modified" field. I am not sure if this is related to the script or a more general problem of PVD.
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I think, this is more
--- Quote ---a more general problem of PVD
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What about the custom "Updated" field, there are certain data change.
See attached pictures.
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