Personal Video Database
English => Support => Topic started by: TeePeeB on September 16, 2008, 12:53:35 pm
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The last couple of days the "IMDB Rating" has not been filling in automatically. I've been having to check the Rating and fill it in manually. Any explantion would be greatly appreciated. I am using version 0.9.8.20
Once again this is a wonderful program. Thank you very much. - Tom
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I have the same problem. Yesterday it worked just fine.
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IMDb has changed the format of the Title page. The plugin will have to be revised.
Among other changes, clicking on the User Rating graphic records a vote, and displays Your Rating underneath. The javascript that does this appears to consistently include the rating, so I imagine the fix will be easy.
When a fix is available, you will be able to search for IMDb Rating = 0, and then run the plugin with those movies selected to update the ratings.
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Fixed: http://www.videodb.info/bin/plugins/imdb.zip
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Thanks for your usual speedy fix. :)
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I am a newbie... the program was working fine. I upgraded to 9.8.2and trouble began with the IMBD importer. First the movie date would not import. I updated the plugin but then it seemed the ratings would not come in. The last two days. the plugin fails altogether. I get a message sayiong' " the IOHandler value is nopt correct. Allmovies and all other plugins are working fine. Today, I see the "latest version for download is 9.8.19" $$$ I downloaded this and installed it over 9.8.2. The result is the same. No connection with IMBD movies but the people IMBD works. Go figure! Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks. I am on a Vista Ultimate OS.
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Remove username and pasword from plugin configuration and the plugin will work again except downloading episodes.
I'll fix the issues with login and episodes during week end.
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Fixed: http://www.videodb.info/bin/plugins/imdb.zip
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i still getting the error IOhandler, but when i tried to update the movie
s.shot:
(http://pce.hostili.com/images/iohandler7if1_thumb.jpg) (http://pce.hostili.com/viewer.php?file=iohandler7if1.jpg)
updating the plugin didn't help :(
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seems to be smth wrong with login procedure. just remove username and password from plugin configuration util I fix this.
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seems to be smth wrong with login procedure. just remove username and password from plugin configuration util I fix this.
if i paid more atention, i would have seen that the answer was few posts above.
thank u very much.
:)
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i still have same problem and the new plugin update doesnt fix it.
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i still have same problem and the new plugin update doesnt fix it.
Could you be more specific?
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I just installed this program (0.9.9.14) and the IMDB rating doesn't fill in for any movie. Also top250, votes and release date fields are not being fetched.
Ive tried editing the plugin settings but no luck. I haven't downloaded the patch in this thread since it seems to be over a year old... Also there are no problems with manually setting the rating.
Otherwise the program is just awesome for my uses, but IMDB rating is really important for me. Is there anything I can do?
Offtopic: There is also a <div class="info-content"> text in MPAA and tagline fields.
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Did you try the latest version of the plugin from the download page?
http://www.videodb.info/bin/plugins/imdb.zip
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Did you try the latest version of the plugin from the download page?
http://www.videodb.info/bin/plugins/imdb.zip
Fixed. How stupid of me to miss the whole download page :P
Thanks for the fast reply!
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I attempted at retrieving two titles today - no imdb rating [latest plugin installed]
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Same for me, no IMDB rating added.
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Me too. Latest plugin installed too. :)
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Same here.
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Please stand by. I will prepare a fix asap.
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We know you will that's why we like you ;)
standing by
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Fixed.
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Fixed.
thanks! :)
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Works very nicely, thanks!
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I tried everything, I think: from assigning every given type of field to it, via naming it even "Please God, Now"(:)), via reading whole forum for a solution and updating every possible plug-in, template and skin, to trying to got it on a several different computers, but I definitely couldn't manage to retrieve data for a Top 250 rank. Oh, yes, and I tried to get it for a movies from Top 250 :) - The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, etc
After having a problem with retrieving IMDb rating and finding solution for it in this topic, the only logical next step were to post about my problem just here, in this very topic. That's because "If I did everything properly, than it has to be something with updating IMDb plug-in", I thought. If I misread something, I sincerely apologize, otherwise will deeply appreciate any help.
Cheers
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I'm surprised the "Please God, Now" didn't work, but it really does seem to be broken. Maybe by the same website change that broke the rating, but wasn't noticed. I wonder if we can devise a test to determine whether the plugin is fully functional at any point in time.
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Rick,
I'm surprised the "Please God, Now" didn't work
Actually, the one could say that it worked - telling me it is nothing between Him and me. :D
Tnx for a fast reply. Meanwhile, I noticed that, for example, I can get proper data and/or it's meant format for "IMDB Tech Specs" only if I assign "Memo" field type to it. If I assign "Long Text" field type to it, I get something like this:
(http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/107/19378259.jpg)
The question is: Is there any suggestion is it better to assign "Number" field type to a custom "IMDb Votes" and "IMDb Top 250 Rank" fields, rather than "Short Text" type, or it is irrelevant at all? What is your experience?
Thank you in advance for any reply.
Cheers
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I think the last update to the plugin broke custom fields. They can no longer be selected in the plugin configuration, and previous settings are lost. Do you see the same thing?
nostra? :'(
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I think the last update to the plugin broke custom fields. They can no longer be selected in the plugin configuration, and previous settings are lost. Do you see the same thing?
nostra? :'(
Can't confirm that. Could you check at what point exactly does it go wrong on your system?
Is there any suggestion is it better to assign "Number" field type to a custom "IMDb Votes" and "IMDb Top 250 Rank" fields, rather than "Short Text" type, or it is irrelevant at all? What is your experience?
You should assign a Memo field for Tech Specs to make it display properly. For Votes and Rank the Number type is optimal as you gain a possibility to sort and filter by these fields in a wright way.
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They can no longer be selected in the plugin configuration, and previous settings are lost. Do you see the same thing?
If the question is for me, I'm not sure what "previous settings" are, cause I've tested it only since last two days on a single entry - "Shawshank", trying to retrieve any following data step-by-step, before I hit "Silent-import~5500-movie-entries-imported-from-MS Excel", and until now that was the only issue I couldn't resolve by myself.
Actually, there is another issue I noticed, but I assume it's not a proper topic for it (it's about media type not retrieving info when importing data from a network share, or from a mapped network drive). I'll post it later. It's not of such an importance at the moment, I guess.
Cheers
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Can't confirm that. Could you check at what point exactly does it go wrong on your system?
Sorry. I must have had the wrong plugin selected when I checked the configuration. :-[
But I can confirm what buah has observed. To be a little more specific, the plugin is saving NULL to the selected rank field—any existing value is deleted.
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You should assign a Memo field for Tech Specs to make it display properly. For Votes and Rank the Number type is optimal as you gain a possibility to sort and filter by these fields in a wright way.
Thank you.
To rick: Now I know what you meant. Unfortunately (or it's not?:)) I never had any value other than NULL, since I started to use it from scratch :)
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I'm surprised the "Please God, Now" didn't work, but it really does seem to be broken. Maybe by the same website change that broke the rating, but wasn't noticed. I wonder if we can devise a test to determine whether the plugin is fully functional at any point in time.
Quick sanity check for rating:
if ( Rating = FloatToStr(StrToFloat(Rating)) then
we have a usable rating
else
the script is broken or you need to check if there is a reason there is no rating...not enough user ratings submitted for example
Test:
Rating = '', conversion results in '0.0' ... not equal, bad rating
Rating = 'some text value', conversion results in '0.0'...not equal, bad rating
Rating = '1.0', conversion results in '1.0', equal, good rating
With a bad rating value, the script should not even attempt to add one to the database. In silent mode there isn't much that can be done, but a showmessage('rating not acquired...' + reason ) could be displayed in 'user' mode.
Any time a valid value is 'missed', it should be considered that the parsing may need to be done at a lower level. For example:
<td>rating</td>
changes to
<td class='rating'>rating</td>
If you were using <td> as the start of text indicator, then you'd consider using <td, then parse until you found the matching '>', at which point you'd have the start of text position, you could look for the text termination character sequence.
Writing this type of code for every value is possible, but very time consuming, and since code (to my knowledge) is not sharable between program (ie. #include common_routines.psf) you'd have to change every program that used it when changes were made. When you consider the shear volume of code involved in this project, it's easy to understand why this hasn't been done.
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I was thinking along the lines of a brute-force user test. Like downloading a set of reasonably static records that covers all data types, exporting everything to text, and then comparing that to the previous test to identify any new errors or omissions.
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I've only learned 2 things as a programmer that are generally applicable to life.
1) Not every problem can be fixed with technology
2) Status quo is often the best solution until a permanent solution has decided upon
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But I can confirm what buah has observed. To be a little more specific, the plugin is saving NULL to the selected rank field—any existing value is deleted.
I'm still hoping this will be fixed.
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Until then, I'm importing posters and covers. :)
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Update: Sometime after my last post, I "discovered" the votes and rank were being updated in some movies and not others. Investigating further today, I find the one movie that made me think that was the case had somehow had an incorrect URL added (it was for a TV production of the same name that had no votes). Now I'm unable to find a movie that will not update properly, so I have to conclude the problem was with the bad URL, not the plugin.
Is anyone else still having a problem getting votes and/or rank?
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I never had a problem with votes. I just imported data for an empty entry "12 Angry Men". Still no rank. To be precise it's not null, but it got value "0" (zero).
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That confirms it then...it seems to be fixed in version 15, to be released soon.
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But, I faced with the most recent issue.
IMDb Tech Spec, defined as a memo field, now is filled in with such data:
.rto2010navstripe a:link, .rto2010navstripe a:visited, .rto2010navstripe a:hover { color: #fff !important;}.rto2010navstripe { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;
margin-bottom: 4px;}
If the field was empty, it got only that text Edit: if there were no Tech Specs found at IMDb. While updating Tech Specs field already containing information, mentioned text is imported in addition. Existing data wasn't overwrited, it was "merged" with the text above.
I use IMDB-v0.9.2.3-English-399 Kb-09.01.2010 plugin
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That also seems to be fixed. The plugin has been updated in version 15, which is to be released soon. I suggest you wait and test again with the new release.
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Just entered the thrad after failing to get the ratings...
we're still waiting for v15?
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I plan to release the next version in a day or two...
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I just imported data for an empty entry "12 Angry Men". Still no rank. To be precise it's not null, but it got value "0" (zero).
Still no luck?
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Oh shit, I accidentally included the old version of imdb plugin. Please get the version 0.9.2.4 from the download page. I am updating the installation files now...
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That's better.
The automatic update system didn't pick that up either. ;)
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I have just uploaded it ;)
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And look at us like vultures:"Where's my peace of meat, no me first, get back..." :):):)
Now it works like a charm.
Thanks!
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cause everyone wants ther piece of the long-awaited updated soft 8)
Version 1 development
that's novum...meaning it's like v16 RC1 or what?
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that's novum...meaning it's like v16 RC1 or what?
Meaning a major release 1.0.0.0
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this second it became clear to me and now seeing your confirmation makes me smile - foobar could do it, PVD can do it too
in line to get it the minute it comes out, ideally before august 2010 ;)