I think that we have PVdB (PDV) for long time if Ivek keep the communication alive. Thank you very much. (BTW I wish to Nostra best with his health, too).
I take the opportunity to tell my story for explain the first affirmation.
- Year 2003) My first player was a Kiss DP-500 and my database Excel
- Year 2008) Player 'WD TV HD Media Player Gen1' with a the ModFirmware B-RAD.CC_WDLXTV. It can navigate in the 'background.jpg' stored in the film folder. If you write the film info in the jpg you have a good player. ¿How do it? With TViXiE, it scrap and make the background (BTW, I still use the backgrounds in the film folder, it very useful in USB, even you can see in TV)
- Year 2011) XBMC arrives. It scrap and its easy to use, a good media player but it's slow in scrap, you must rebuild the bibliotheque and you can save the film info in the folder but it's difficult of update.
- Year 2013) To much work for keep update my collection, TViXiE (and the scrapers fails), KODI, etc. I landed to PVdB and I build my collection. What can i do?
I make my own scrapers
http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php/topic,3876.msg19888.html#msg19888 http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php/topic,3881.msg19414.html#msg19414.
I make an PVdB export script for give the info to TViXiE and with a AutoHotKey script automatically I can rebuild all backgrounds with fresh info
http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php/topic,3880.msg18295.html#msg18295.
I make an PVdB export script for give to KODY the .nfo file, poster, fanart and I can refresh all info automatically and KODY only must charge from disc.
http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php/topic,1496.msg18294.html#msg18294And more ... I make an scraper that search the best films (rating and votes), compares with my collection and propose me the good film for not lose my time.
¡Long life for PVdB (PDV)! PS: Ivek don't worry about the https issue. There is a roundabout: we can use a external program (I think in curl
https://curl.haxx.se/) to download the page to a file and scrap it with PVdB.