Personal Video Database

Here's the most comprehensive list of both original and custom fields through many active and obsolete scripts, I have managed to gather.


If you want me to add fields from any other script please do not post links to the script, upload script here, or I won't be able to add it to the list. That is how we will easier track which additional scripts are added.

Probably very interesting column is column D which shows if script field is active or inactive ("hidden") in the script, so you might want to change the script if you find some inactive field in active script for yourself, and you even didn't know it's there. Not every hidden field will import data when activated, be aware, so if you're not sure, better ask Ivek.

List of my custom films is in column H. Yours is different so change it carefully if you want to know which custom fields from scripts you don't have added to your PVD. For this filter either column B or G for "No Custom Field Added in PVD for This Field".


There are many formulas in the file in order to help automation of future adding, as well as for better visibility inside the file, so be careful with any customization especially because of array formulas and conditional formatting.


It would be nice someone to change exclusively in column B what types of PVD fields are those in column A, with "No Custom Field Added in PVD for This Field" in column B. Please do not change this in column G. I added column B intentionally for this change only.


If you have any question, I'll do my best to respond.

Thanks for the responses. We could probably achieve this by mimicking nextposterbtn clicking after each import. That would also need to rewrite ahk autioit script, and all of that would be way to over headed

To add further questions, so you could answer in one post:
If you have a definitive answer (yes or no), how do you know that, is it your experience?
If it's not experience, is there any resource on this forum that I am able to see and find, but I can't succeed to find such info?
If there's some resource out of this forum, or here but I don't have access to it, and which would provide me to analyze capabilities of database and PVD itself, but you have an access to such resource I'd highly appreciate if you could, would or are allowed and be willing to share it with me.

Thank you in advance.

This code of yours does not work for me. Can you attach your version of the script so I can see how it looks and works.

Of course. Just to let you know that at the moment I'm working on Directors custom field. So, for now only IMDb Cast custom field works

Quote from: Ivek23 on November 13, 2024, 11:33:58 am

Of course it doesn't transfer the correct information because this feature is not disabled. You probably have a setting to transfer information to "Cast" ~actors~ ctActors from the Full Cast&Crew website. Find this feature in the Script Options section at the top of the script and change the settings as shown below.

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  //GET_FULL_CREDIT  = True ;  //Download Cast or Credit provider page for retreive the info. Otherwise only the info of the principal movie page.
  GET_FULL_CREDIT  = False ;  //Download Cast or Credit provider page for retreive the info. Otherwise only the info of the principal movie page.
I will edit a special script for this, maybe today for you.

Here is a special IMDB_[EN][HTTPS]_TEST_2c(Cast&Crew)_(afrocuban) script for you, which is set up to transfer information to "Cast" ~actors~ ctActors from the Full Cast&Crew website. You can also edit other person information using it.

The IMDB_[EN][HTTPS]_TEST_2c script cannot transfer all person information from the primary IMDb movie pages, because it will need to make some corrections or updates to properly transfer all information again,  because some changes were made to the source code of the IMDb pages again.

IMDB_[EN][HTTPS]_TEST_2c(Cast&Crew)_(afrocuban) script is attached.

Oh, you were faster then me. My replying window was open while I was coding, so wasn't aware of your response. Thank you so much, but as I wrote, let's spare you when you are needed for global script, not for mine only! Humbly grateful.

Thanks for a feedback, Ivek.
I understood your points, and this is what I did



    //Get  to "Cast" ~actors~ ctActors
       //Go Cast list
       curPos:=Pos('<h3 class="ipc-title__text">Top cast',HTML);                                     //Strings start which opens the block content data. WEB_SPECIFIC
       curPos:=curPos+Length('<div class="ipc-avatar ipc-avatar--base ipc-avatar--dynamic-width" role="group">');                                //Strings end which opens the block content data.  WEB_SPECIFIC
       //Get all "raw" crew summary (in raw because we need the hidden person links) May one person or severals in the ~crew~
       endPos:=PosFrom('</li></ul><><><><>',HTML,curPos);                                             //Strings which opens/closes the data. WEB_SPECIFIC
       ItemList:=Copy(HTML,curPos,endPos-curPos);
       //LogMessage('           Parse results ('+IntToStr(curPos)+','+IntToStr(endPos)+') complex ItemList:'+ItemList+'||');
       curPos:=Pos('" class="ipc-image" loading="',ItemList)                               //String which opens the subList data. WEB_SPECIFIC
       index:=1;
ItemValue1:=''; // Initialize the custom IMDb Cast field


       While curPos>0 Do Begin
          If (index>PEOPLE_LIMITS) Then break;     //Limited depassed.
          //Get PersonURL (Always must it has)
          ItemValue:=TextBetWeen(ItemList,'<a data-testid="title-cast-item__actor" href="/name/','?ref_=tt_cl_t_',false,curPos);
          PersonURL:=BASE_URL_PERSON_PRE + ItemValue + BASE_URL_SUF; //Strings which opens/closes the data. WEB_SPECIFIC
          LogMessage('      Parse Results PersonURL:'+PersonURL+'||');
       //Get Name (Always must it has) 
          //Name:=TextBetWeen(ItemList,'?ref_=tt_cl_t_'+IntToStr(index)+'" class="StyledComponents__ActorName-y9ygcu-1 eyqFnv"','</a><div class="title-cast-item__characters-list">',false,curPos);
        Name:=TextBetWeen(ItemList,'">','</a><div class="title-cast-item__characters-list">',false,curPos);  //Strings which opens/closes the data. WEB_SPECIFIC
          //Name:=Trim(StringReplace(Name,'>','',True,False,True));
        LogMessage('      Parse Results Name:'+Name+'||');
          //Get Role YES: PVD save Role in cast (actors) people (Not always has link)       
        Role:=TextBetWeen(ItemList,' title-cast-item__char" data-testid="cast-item-characters-link">','</span><span data-testid="cast-item-characters-with-as" class="',false,curPos);  //Strings which opens/closes the data. WEB_SPECIFIC
          //Role:=Trim(StringReplace(Role,'>','',True,False,True));
          ///Role:=StringReplace(Role,Chr(13),'',True,False,True);
          ///Role:=StringReplace(Role,'  ','',True,False,True);
          LogMessage('      Parse Results Role:'+Role+'||');
        If Pos('http://www.imdb.com/name//' ,PersonURL) < 1 then
        AddMoviePerson(Name,'',Role,PersonURL,ctActors);
          LogMessage('      Get results cast:#'+IntToStr(index)+'|'+Name+'|'+Role+'|'+PersonURL+'||ctActors');                                               


    // Custom field: IMDb Cast (names only, separated by "  •  ")
    If ItemValue1='' Then
        ItemValue1:=Name
    Else
        ItemValue1:=ItemValue1+'  •  '+Name;
          //curPos:=PosFrom('" class="ipc-image" loading="',ItemList,curPos);                          //String which opens the Web Result item List data. WEB_SPECIFIC
          index:=index+1;
       End;
      //LogMessage(#13+'');
    End;   
   //*)     
   //(*         
      LogMessage(#13+'');
   //*)     


// Add custom field IMDb Cast
AddCustomFieldValueByName('IMDb Cast', ItemValue1);
// Log the IMDb Cast field for verification
LogMessage('IMDb Cast: '+ItemValue1);


    //Get "plot_summary" as ~comment~ //debug_pos1-1


Mysteriously and hilariously, instead of importing Cast, it imports Tv2 value into IMDb Cast field! It's some problem with ItemValue1 value that I'm trying to define, but I am not able to grasp what I'm doing wrong, so it pulls ItemValue1 from the first previous segment where it's used, and that is exactly Tv2 field in the script.


If you're willing to review and suggest snippet change, it would be appreciated as always.


P.S. Forum won't accept in the code section / div, but it's there in


<><><><>


so it's actually < / div >< / div >< / div >< / div >, without space inside, of course.

So, if I select too many values in a multiselect list, concatenated result in a skin is that the line exceeds skin (section) width. For example, for many Netflix's movies, there are too many subtitles, so once the file is scanned, I can't see all subtitles, but only those which fit skin width.


I have tried to set "wordwrap=true" attribute both to field and to column in which the field reside, but to no avail. This might be expected, because according to Skin Engine Help Manual, "wordwrap" is mentioned only in section about labels.


Is there a way to "wordwrap" Multiselect List field, so I could see all the values?

Quote from: afrocuban on November 05, 2024, 07:10:57 am

My goal would be to add people photos (thumbnails) for people listed in Movie skin's movie record, similar like on the website(s). Is that possible, anyone has an idea?

We would like to have pictures of the actors or other people along with the list of actors, just like on IMDb websites, where there is, for example, a Top Cast list of actors or Full Cast & Crew pages. Unfortunately, this cannot be done in movies skins, nor does the PVD program allow or support such an option. It is possible to use movies skin or people skins separately, but not in combinations of both at once.

I guessed so. Thanks for a feedback, Ivek.

Does anyone have the issue with this skin, as I do. Namely, when downloading a person's photo is taking a place, it freezes, I cannot cancel import, and the only way to continue is to kill viddb.exe process, and to restart PVD.


Thanks a bunch for a feedback.

My goal would be to add people photos (thumbnails) for people listed in Movie skin's movie record, similar like on the website(s). Is that possible, anyone has an idea?