Personal Video Database

At least recently, FilmAffinity script parses Movie title custom field "title1" together with movietype when the title is not movie, but series, documentary or so. For example, for https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film348275.html for the result after <h1> we were getting

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band                documentary

Instead

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

only.


So, using AI, I corrected this, because I confirmed that in such cases there are exactly 16 spaces between the title and movie type. So I changed this in the script. Instead of this



//Get ~title~
    curPos:=1
    ItemValue:=TextBetWeen(HTML,'<h1 id="main-title">','</h1>',false,curPos);            //Strings which opens/closes the data. WEB_SPECIFIC
    AddCustomFieldValueByName('title1',ItemValue);
    LogMessage('      Get result title:'+ItemValue+'||');


I changed with this ( I choose to use >8 spaces just in case)

// Get ~title~
curPos := 1;


// Extract the section within <h1 id="main-title"> and </h1>
ItemValue := TextBetWeen(HTML, '<h1 id="main-title">', '</h1>', false, curPos);
LogMessage('Intermediate result after <h1>: ' + ItemValue + '||');


// Check and clean up any trailing content with 8 or more spaces
curPos := Pos('        ', ItemValue); // 8 spaces here between single quotes


if curPos > 0 then
begin
    // Move the cursor to cover any additional spaces
    // This loop handles any number of trailing spaces greater than or equal to 8
    while (curPos <= Length(ItemValue)) and (ItemValue[curPos] = '        ') do // 8 spaces here between single quotes
    begin
        curPos := curPos + 1;
    end;
   
    // Extract the title up to the first non-space character after the spaces
    ItemValue := Copy(ItemValue, 1, curPos - 1);
    LogMessage('Cleaned title result: ' + ItemValue + '||');
end
else
begin
    LogMessage('No extra trailing content found.');
end;


// Trim any leading or trailing whitespace
ItemValue := Trim(ItemValue);


// Add the title to the custom field
AddCustomFieldValueByName('title1', ItemValue);


// Log the final cleaned title for verification
LogMessage('Get result title: ' + ItemValue + '||');



It would be good Ivek to officially include it in FilmAffinity script if interested in, otherwise if someone is interested in, I can post my already customized script

Hello Ivek.


I'm creating a new skin, pretty much different than anything seen here so far. As a teaser, It'll contain all the custom fields I'm aware of, around 160 as I already mentioned earlier.


For it to work properly, I need 2 custom fields: for IMDb actors without role and directors, with values separated with: "  •  ", or with double/triple space, even better.


I can't use existing human fields for those two, because they're by design of a link memo type, and with link memo it is impossible (at least for me) to achieve even simple goals in skin engineering.


I am more than willing to learn to do it myself with your help, of course. I can recognize patterns, and I already changed separator for Tv2 custom field with aforementioned, instead comma.


Thank you in advance

Hello Ivek.


Is there a way we can get a full comprehensive list of custom fields, at least from IMDb scripts, with names and types of fields?
I'd like to get it because my goal is to create a skin which will include all the fields I'm able to collect. I want to split custom fields to different tabs with different names, unlike Classic skin where all the custom fields are generated in a single section.


Thank you in advance.

My goal would be to add people photos (thumbnails) for people listed in Movie skin's movie record, similar like on the website(s). Is that possible, anyone has an idea?

Hello Ivek. In a new _2b script. metascore import field doesn't work. But, more importantly, when updating older PVD movie entries where I had metascore imported from the times it worked, now when I update with _2b script, the field is overwritten with empty/zero value. How to prevent this please?

... PVD is revived once again due to Ivek's magical takes on AllMovie and IMDb scripts?   


I am following other catalogues and I can tell you that neither is updated as PVD. In general they all dies...

I wonder how many users still using PVD.


Do you think more than few dozens?

It looks like movie cataloguers are vanishing slowly, like everything goes online. You set everything on IMDb and goodbye privacy...
I'm looking for alternatives as a backup, and this is what I found:
1. Movienizer looks the best, but you have to pay for it, it hasn't updated since 2020, and most important - it doesn't support UTF8, and whole PVD, logically and naturally is in UTF8.
2. Ant Movie Catalogue can import from PVD exports (csv, or txt), and can have as many as wished custom fields, but it is ugly, and again, it doesn't support UTF8!?
3. At the end - emdb. It supports PVD import, it supports UTF8, but - no custom fields, only few of them, and it's not as nice as others...
4. Still checking coolllector, but it doesn't look good so far... Will be back with news
Bah... No cataloguer as PVD ever...

We can write only here, so I will use this subforum.


First thank you so much for your contribution. i have sent you an email, Ivek, but it probably finished in spam. To repeat: I wish you good health, both to you and to your mom!


I just wanted to let you know that your 1b script works great, only metascore isn't imported for me anymore.


Example for instance:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10640346/

Hello Ivek.

Thank you so much for tremendous efforts to keep PVD live, especially with the recent IMDb and AllMovie script updates, which needed a lot of work and rewritings.

I have a question - do you, or anyone else know why "Title" isn't equal anymore with "Localized Title" when importing data? It should be the same since IMDb reads my IP and if there is localized title, it imports it in "Title" as such, making it equal with "Localized Title", right?

Or, am I missing something? I know this because of my skin. I had original "Title" field and until the end of July it always imported in that field localized title if there was one, but not anymore.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts or ideas on this.