Personal Video Database

I was asking what scripts you are using to pull data now.


Thank you .

Sorry, but I'm not currently using any scripts or anything that uses Python to download data. I'm not currently working on PVD, which uses Python scripts to download data from the IMDb websites.

As you mentioned below, which I already wrote a few months ago.

in a previous post you said:

Quote from: Ivek23 on July 06, 2025, 05:28:46 am

I don't know what's going on, because I'm not using any IMDB_Movies_[EN][Selenium]-v4 script versions at the moment. And I won't be using them for quite some time. afrocuban user has been away for quite some time, so he can fix these scripts as best he can, because he knows the design of these scripts. He'll probably be away for quite some time, and the question here is how long it will be before he returns.

Hello Ivek23,

can you tell us what combination of scripts what are you using ?

Since you are in the Python scripts section, you must first have Python and its plugins installed. You can find what and how to install Python in the sticky topics and documentation mentioned above. You also need gecko or chrome driver to run Python scripts.

Then you need the following files, Python scripts and programs listed below in the PVD Scripts folder.

- BE_PATIENT_PLEASE-DOWNLOADING_DATA file

 - NoImage2AvailableForPVD.png
 - NoPhoto2AvailableForPVD.png

 - purge_tmp_files.vbs

 - IMDB_Movies_[EN][Selenium]-v4.psf
 - IMDB_Movies_[EN][Selenium]-v4.bak
 - SeleniumPVDbMovieScriptsConfig-v4.psf
 - SeleniumPVDbPeopleScriptsConfig-v4.psf

 - Selenium_Chrome_Base_page_v4.py
 - Selenium_Chrome_DownloadImage-v4.py
 - Selenium_Chrome_IMDB_Episode_List_page_v4.py
 - Selenium_Chrome_Movie_Additional_pages_v4.py
 - Selenium_Chrome_People_Additional_pages_v4.py
 - Selenium_Chrome_Search-v4.py

 - SeleniumPVDbScriptsConfig-v4.ahk
 - seleniumpvdbscriptsconfig-v4.exe
 - SeleniumPVDbScriptsConfig-v4.ini

 - chromedriver.exe or geckodriver.exe

The above is what you need for PVD and Python scripts to work. Whether this still works is another question, because certain parts of the source code of the IMDb pages have changed.

If you want or use the Firefox browser, let me know, so I can attach Python scripts with Firefox settings and geckodriver.exe .

Lately, information from IMDB is almost not loaded. For example, Nagagutsu o Haita Neko (1969, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064714/). And so with most films.

I don't know what's going on, because I'm not using any IMDB_Movies_[EN][Selenium]-v4 script versions at the moment. And I won't be using them for quite some time. afrocuban user has been away for quite some time, so he can fix these scripts as best he can, because he knows the design of these scripts. He'll probably be away for quite some time, and the question here is how long it will be before he returns.

movie The Gorge (2025) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13654226/). In the Category uploaded this "e - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13654226/ - https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTQ5Y2QyYTktYmFmZi00NWJlLWE0MzgtYTA4M2I0". New script installed. Thank you.

Welcome.

Everything transferred normally for me.

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The Imdb Reference view has switched to a new, changed web page design, and with it, changes have also been made to the source code of these pages.
Now, however, a problem has arisen, because due to these changes, a lot of information is no longer transferred, because in the script there were many parts of the code linked to the reference pages.

Now, it is necessary to completely rearrange or rewrite both the IMDB_Movie_[EN][Selenium]-v4 and IMDB_Movies_[EN][Selenium]-v4 scripts, or perhaps some others, which requires a lot of time and work. will have to wait for the Afrocuban user to return, because as the author of the scripts he knows the concept of the written scripts best.

He also mentioned that he will wait until the scripts are corrected until the Imdb Reference view web pages switch to the new web page design. When he will return is another question, maybe soon in a few weeks, maybe only in a few months, we will see.

You can see an example of the new design at the link below.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/reference

I suddenly have something strange happening with Selenium. If you take the log file as an example, you can see that instead of a couple dozen kilobytes, this file starts to swell to megabytes.. PWD freezes and does not enter anything into the database. And this is not in any particular movie, but in all that I tried to enter today.

The source code for the UserReviews area has been changed again, which is why this is happening. I will see what can be done about this problem in the next few days.