automate tasks in DVDpedia?

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wmskaggs
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automate tasks in DVDpedia?

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I have a large collection of DVD's I imported from an Excel worksheet. I love DVDpedia's feature that allows you to download cover art and advanced info for each DVD in the collection. Does anyone know if there is a way to use a macro to automate this program. Right now, I'm manually selecting a title, clicking on Advanced Info, downloading the cover art and info from IMDB and then scrolling down to the next DVD title on the list.
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Re: automate tasks in DVDpedia?

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You can select a number of DVDs and then use the command menu Advance --> Get More Info. This will download both more information and the cover if it's missing for the selected entries. Because DVDpedia will have to do the best guess for multiple results it might get a few general ones like "Matrix" wrong. It would confuse it for "Matrix II" as it has the same director. In these cases delete the information and then use the gear button at the bottom of the edit window, because the process is not automates you will be presented with a choice from the results.
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