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DVDpedia failing to import tags & director from IMDB.

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2024 2:52 am
by gonnemans
Hi dear people of this brilliant software,

I'm on a mac Sequoia 15.0.1. Every pedia I have works smoothly just for this one thing: no longer importing of 'director' & 'tags' from IMDB (other info fine).
Just so know.
I use the cd, book and dvd pedia's on a daily basis for over 10 years, thanks for all the joy its bringing.

Greetings from Holland
gonnemans

Re: DVDpedia failing to import tags & director from IMDB.

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2024 10:58 pm
by filmsoncon
Thank you for flagging this - it's driving me insane.

Re: DVDpedia failing to import tags & director from IMDB.

Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2024 3:39 pm
by FineWine
Usually when this sort of thing happens it means IMDb has slightly altered their API, again :(

We will all have to wait till Conor finds time to update the Pedia’s search plug-in.

Patience :D

Re: DVDpedia failing to import tags & director from IMDB.

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 11:05 am
by gonnemans
FineWine wrote: Sat Oct 12, 2024 3:39 pm Usually when this sort of thing happens it means IMDb has slightly altered their API, again :(

We will all have to wait till Conor finds time to update the Pedia’s search plug-in.

Patience :D
I will! Thanks for letting us know, much appreciated.

Re: DVDpedia failing to import tags & director from IMDB.

Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2024 6:48 pm
by m.cellophane
For my current work-around, I use Excel. I copy the IMDb tags from the page and paste into Column A in Excel. I sort to remove the "helpful" up/down votes.

In Column B, I use the formula:

=A1&","

This adds a comma after every tag. Copy this column and paste into the DVDPedia tags field.

Re: DVDpedia failing to import tags & director from IMDB.

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2025 7:53 am
by roso
Hi everybody, I used DVDpedia for many years. I'm still in 10.14 and I've the same problem: the research with IMDB have no result. The only solution I found is to search on the website of IMDB their number for the film, to add this identification number on the "details" tab, and then the research will work.

Re: DVDpedia failing to import tags & director from IMDB.

Posted: Sat May 10, 2025 6:46 am
by Ted
Not only is it failing from IMDB, but Movie:Update From: Doghouse as well as TMDB is failing for Credits. I see them all apear and then they disappear. Movie: Babygirl

I finally successfully got the credits from Wikipedia. Obviously that's a workaround, but for a very prominent film -- Wikipedia has a small portion of films listed with the full cast than IMDB, etc.

All that said -- it was my first time using Wikipedia, and for this movie at least, their level of details for Credits is fantastic.