Amazon.com problem

[trumpy81]

GDay All,

I have PVD set to download images from Amazon.com but lately whenever I add a video PVD will search for photos then present a dialog to select a suitable image, then it will search again and present the dialog again. After selecting an image for the second time it appears to download the image but then it pops up a dialog saying 'No Movie Found'.

If I import the image via Amazon.co.uk everything works as expected.

This started happening just before the last update but has continued after updating.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[rick.ca]

This isn't the same thing, but it does indicate something strange is going on. Here's a log of one small test of the plugin...

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(08/19/2011 02:58:23 PM) Searching posters for: American Beauty
(08/19/2011 02:58:23 PM) GET: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=dvd&field-keywords=American+Beauty
(08/19/2011 02:58:23 PM) Redirected to: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A2625373011&page=1
(08/19/2011 02:58:25 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RfEhuJhRL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:25 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WhUN1HrQL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:25 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51REtKhE6lL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:26 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cCy815g0L._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:26 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zwKX-l%2BmL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:26 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aSjj01OhL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:26 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rybFChmDL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:26 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51r94O3uxPL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:26 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2BQW9cUvoL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:26 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C3FRMvmjL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:26 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512F90yEqdL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:26 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516CIDGMlPL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:48 PM) Searching posters for: American Beauty
(08/19/2011 02:58:48 PM) GET: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=dvd&field-keywords=American+Beauty
(08/19/2011 02:58:48 PM) Redirected to: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A2625373011&field-keywords=American%20Beauty&page=1
(08/19/2011 02:58:51 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TP3QGXCQL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:51 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41PBDmK%2BqzL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:51 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61qqjXCmXGL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:51 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HmOJSsW0L._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:52 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qKTjxUoPL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:52 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512F3B158GL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:52 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KDN6AM2NL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:52 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RGTP1JK8L._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:52 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519YJSCQQYL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:53 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R%2BSuuTvhL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:53 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41pooqak-XL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
(08/19/2011 02:58:53 PM) GET: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xi5tRWebL._SL160_AA115_.jpg
The first attempt returns a bunch of apparently random posters. The problem is obvious: The redirect drops the search term. The search result is, not surprisingly, "Showing 1 - 12 of 855,914 Results." I tried it again and it worked properly, "Showing 1 - 12 of 240 Results"—most of which were American Beauty posters.

And, as these things often go, after having no difficulty producing this result with several different movies, I can no longer reproduce it.

[trumpy81]

GDay All,

Rick, I should have added that occassionally it works as expected and the images are downloaded correctly.

My original thoughts were that perhaps the movie titles I was adding contained unicode characters or something and that was why I was having the problem. Of course I checked and even renamed some of the movies but it varied as to whether or not the image downloaded.

At least your testing has shown that this is not a PVD problem but an obscure Amazon problem. That's good to know at least. It also gets my equipment off the hook ... 

For the time being I have set Amazon.co.uk as the default, at least until this problem is solved.

[Ivek23]

There are changes happening. I see the PVD web search when I search through Amazon.com for DVD UPC code.
Example for Bend Of The River movie.
Here we find the first correct address, in another case only in the second search finds the correct address, in some cases, movie title, which I'm looking for one, do not find it.

[rick.ca]

Please check your log. It will show exactly what's happening. As I've already reported, there seems to be an issue with a redirection not consistently including the requested search. I have no idea whether anything can be do to the plugin to remedy such a problem.

[Ivek23]

There are changes happening. I see the PVD web search when I search through Amazon.com for DVD UPC code.

Correction:
I see when using Web search in PVD, I'm looking for movie title on the Amazon.com web page, that after using a specific URL address to find 12-digit UPC code for DVD, which is a movie that I have a movie database.

[Ivek23]

Please check your log. It will show exactly what's happening. As I've already reported, there seems to be an issue with a redirection not consistently including the requested search. I have no idea whether anything can be do to the plugin to remedy such a problem.

Same as described here.