Search Sources
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:02 pm
I have been doing a number of manual inputs due to DVDPedia seeming to miss entries on imdb.com or other sites.
Several things have come to mind.
Would it be possible to configure the search order? For example, I would like to search beginning with either imdb.com or amazon.com and then revert to others. It would be nice to be able to customize the process.
tcm.com has a lot of very good synopses of movies, but it is not a choice as a search source. I realize that there are problems with their images being Flash based...I am still trying to figure out an easy way to import their images to DVDPedia.
The NYTime movie reviews also frequently have a synopsis of a movie when it is lacking in other sites.
There are sites such as movieposter.com which have images of posters that are useful resources when one of the other sites has no image. If there is no image returned through imdb.com or amazon.com or whatever, is it possible to add a search button for images that would either search sites such as movieposter.com or perhaps even Google Images?
Thanks!
<edit> P.S. The window to manually add a new entry after clicking on "add" comes back up as a manual entry window, the same as the one that I just used. It would be useful to add a button for "new search" to this window. At present, I close the window and then click on the "+" button on the main window. I may have missed something, but that is the way I am doing it at present.
Several things have come to mind.
Would it be possible to configure the search order? For example, I would like to search beginning with either imdb.com or amazon.com and then revert to others. It would be nice to be able to customize the process.
tcm.com has a lot of very good synopses of movies, but it is not a choice as a search source. I realize that there are problems with their images being Flash based...I am still trying to figure out an easy way to import their images to DVDPedia.
The NYTime movie reviews also frequently have a synopsis of a movie when it is lacking in other sites.
There are sites such as movieposter.com which have images of posters that are useful resources when one of the other sites has no image. If there is no image returned through imdb.com or amazon.com or whatever, is it possible to add a search button for images that would either search sites such as movieposter.com or perhaps even Google Images?
Thanks!
<edit> P.S. The window to manually add a new entry after clicking on "add" comes back up as a manual entry window, the same as the one that I just used. It would be useful to add a button for "new search" to this window. At present, I close the window and then click on the "+" button on the main window. I may have missed something, but that is the way I am doing it at present.