PVD Selenium MOD v4 IMDb Movie, People and FilmAffinity Scripts

[afrocuban]

Did you start 4 chrome instances manually prior to run the PVD?
start chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9222 --user-data-dir="C:\PVD\1"
start chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9223 --user-data-dir="C:\PVD\2"
start chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9224 --user-data-dir="C:\PVD\3"
start chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9225 --user-data-dir="C:\PVD\4"

[Miguelh1020]

Hello, everybody!
Thanks for all the effort and the updates!!

Can I get a little assistance? I just can't make the Selenium scripts to work for me.
When I use any of them I get an "open" window, If I pick a .jpg file, it just loads it as a poster and stops. If I cancel the "open" window, the PVD gives an error message. Any idea what seems to be the problem?

Right now I'm downloading movie info with TheMovieDB[EN][API] script, which is pretty reliable

[afrocuban]

Hello, everybody!
Thanks for all the effort and the updates!!

Can I get a little assistance? I just can't make the Selenium scripts to work for me.
When I use any of them I get an "open" window, If I pick a .jpg file, it just loads it as a poster and stops. If I cancel the "open" window, the PVD gives an error message. Any idea what seems to be the problem?

Right now I'm downloading movie info with TheMovieDB[EN][API] script, which is pretty reliable

This can happen when searching for a movie and you don't have .png files in /Scripts folder. For other cases, I have no idea without logs.

[jondak]

Did you start 4 chrome instances manually prior to run the PVD?
start chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9222 --user-data-dir="C:\PVD\1"
start chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9223 --user-data-dir="C:\PVD\2"
start chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9224 --user-data-dir="C:\PVD\3"
start chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9225 --user-data-dir="C:\PVD\4"

This i didn't do. Will try again next week when time permits.

Thank you

[Miguelh1020]

This can happen when searching for a movie and you don't have .png files in /Scripts folder. For other cases, I have no idea without logs.

I got this log. I hope it helps, I can't understand any of it

[afrocuban]

Please be specific which script doesn't work for you and post screenshots with a specific title when it happens as well as log.txt and other logs from Scripts/Tmp folder so we could try to reproduce and help you.

[RazorHall]

I'm having the same problem as Miguelh1020. Attached is a screenshot of what happens when I try to use IMDB_Movie_[EN][Selenium]-v4.  Log.txt is blank, and there are no files in the Tmp folder.

[Ivek23]

The problem is probably in the script. But it is more likely that the fault is in the outdated chromedriver.exe, which needs to be updated to the latest version every now and then. Then we will see if it works or if it is a problem in the script.

I know this problem with chromedriver.exe from my own experiences and it worked again after the latest update.

Notice:
It is different with geckodriver, which I use for my scripts and where updates are made much less often and therefore there are much fewer of these problems. There, only parts of the code in the scripts are corrected and then it works normally again.

[RazorHall]

I'm using Version 147.0.7727.56.  Is there a newer one I should be using instead?

[Ivek23]

I'm using Version 147.0.7727.56.  Is there a newer one I should be using instead?

ChromeDriver 147.0.7727.56 is latest version.

The problem is probably in the script.

Updates would be needed.

[RazorHall]

About those updates, just to clarify... are you saying afrocuban would need to update the scripts, or is this some sort of update I can do?

[Ivek23]

About those updates, just to clarify... are you saying afrocuban would need to update the scripts, or is this some sort of update I can do?

Ask afrocuban user via private message what he will answer you.

It's more difficult to fix something yourself, maybe something with the help of AI.

[afrocuban]

Empty /Tmp folder if it's already not. Run the script. Tell what hapens in /Tmp folder.

You also need to tell us which exact steps you took from the first post: https://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php/topic,4379.msg22821.html#msg22821

Which versions of Chrome and chromedriver you are using (current is v147.x)

[Ivek23]

I'm using Version 147.0.7727.56.  Is there a newer one I should be using instead?

ChromeDriver 147.0.7727.56 is latest version.

[RazorHall]

Empty /Tmp folder if it's already not. Run the script. Tell what hapens in /Tmp folder.

You also need to tell us which exact steps you took from the first post: https://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php/topic,4379.msg22821.html#msg22821

Which versions of Chrome and chromedriver you are using (current is v147.x)

The Tmp folder was already empty, and after I run the script, it remains empty.

The steps I took...

A: installed python
B: installed selenium via cmd
C: have Chrome bin on PATH
D: have Python folder on PATH
E: pythonw.exe is not missing
F: put appropriate chromedriver.exe to the "Script" folder
G: rename current "Scripts" folder to "Scripts-Original", and put Scripts.7z in PVD folder and extract it there
H: (from your January 6th post on page 3 of the same thread) backup and empty Scripts folder and extract Scripts_2026-01-06.7z there. Extract the other file into PVD root folder

As Ivek reposted above, I'm using Version 147.0.7727.56 of both Chrome and Chromedriver.

[afrocuban]

If after running your script /Tmp folder remains empty, it means you broke Selenium_Chrome_Base_page_v4.py script somehow, or you are running different versions of Chrome and chromedriver.


Run the script from cmd for example as (use your own paths):

python "C:\PersonalVideoDB\Scripts\Selenium_Chrome_Movie_Additional_pages_v4.py" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0858568/ "C:\PersonalVideoDB\Scripts\Tmp\downpage-UTF8_NO_BOM.htm" ""

and copy/paste cmd output here.

Tell us what cmd output is of the cmd command is:

python --version

It has to be >= 3.12.x

To check Chrome version from cmd run:

reg query "HKCU\Software\Google\Chrome\BLBeacon" /v version

[RazorHall]

The result of running the script from cmd is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\PVD_1.0.2.7_MOD-V20191020\PersonalVideoDB\Scripts\Selenium_Chrome_Movie_Additional_pages_v4.py", line 19, in <module>
    import psutil  # NEW: for precise process cleanup
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'psutil'


The output of the next command is Python 3.14.4

The result of checking Chrome version is 147.0.7727.56

[afrocuban]

Ok, now everything clear, self explanatory. Just install psutil, in cmd, like:

pip install psutil

But now I'm wondering: if the script worked at some point, and then not, that doesn't seem plausible...

[RazorHall]

Okay, I installed psutil and here's what happened:

I tried the IMDB Movie script again, and the same window popped up as if it wanted me to choose a file or image.
I hit 'cancel', but instead of getting the usual error message with options to continue application, restart application, etc., this time it appeared to finally be downloading information.
I waited for 20-30 seconds, it finished, and the script had downloaded an image for the selected movie and a few other bits of information like the genre, studio, IMDB rating, and a couple of other things.  However, no cast, tags, summary, etc.
I opened the configurator, and pretty much every box had a checkmark, so I made one change, which was to uncheck the "download posters" box.
I clicked 'apply', closed the configurator and tried the IMDB Movie script again.
The "open" window popped up as before, so I hit 'cancel'. This time, as it was doing before I installed psutil, the "an error occured in the application" box popped up with the options to continue, restart, or close.
I tried it a few more times on a few different movies, and I get that same error message each time.

[afrocuban]

The only things that matters are the logs to post them here. Meaning, all the steps you took until we concluded about psutil. Run the scripts from the cmd...