Personal Video Database

A reply directly by nostra! :-) WOW!

Well, my problem is not to retrieve actor and director name, it's related on the way the site's search engine works.
Let's say I would like to search for information on Jack Brown.
I have only ONE search string tu use.

• SEARCH_STR := ' www.site.com/search.php?actor=%s&director=%s'
  In this case the site's search engine will return all movies where Jack Brown is both director and actor. Useless.
  
• SEARCH_STR := ' www.site.com/search.php?actor=%s&director='
  In this case the site's search engine will return all actors named Jack Brown. If Jack Brown is actually an actor it is great. If he's a director it is useless.
  
• SEARCH_STR := ' www.site.com/search.php?actor=&director=%s'
  In this case the site's search engine will return all directors named Jack Brown. If Jack Brown is actually a director it is great. If he's an actor it is useless.
  

So my idea is to add search results first form this url www.site.com/search.php?actor=%s&director= and then from this  www.site.com/search.php?actor=&director=%s, but I don't know how to do this.

goddert got the point on this script.
I really don't want to download a thumbinail. So I did as goddert says: download the first poster (if exists) because it's 95% italian. In my last update the script downloads the first two posters (95% an italian and an alternative foreign poster).
The page is really a mess. There aren't HTTP elements identification or a standard structure so the script has to check a lot of conditions.
Not to mention the search engine: a nightmare. I'm in trouble with the mymovies peoples script right now because of it.

This script gets only italian posters, so if this is missing (like the movies you mentioned) the poster will not be downloaded.
Example: 8-Mile has only a thumbinail, not a real poster. The transporter has only the english poster.
Anyway, I will let the script download both the italian poster and the first foreign poster aviable. There will be 2 posters (or just one, it depends on which poster is aviable or not) for each movie, for now. It's difficult to get the italian OR the english poster due to the organisation of the MyMovies.it site. I will try it later to write a better script to avoid 2 posters.
I will add director in the search results also.
About tagline: well, that pink sentence is just a quote of the review of the movie. It doesn't describe the movie itself and it's quite aimless in my opinion... but ok, I will try to include it.

Ok people, I'm really sorry. I abandoned all of you and my script. I would like to thank who fixed a few bugs in my old script.
I'm using PVD again now and, since my old MyMovies script sucks I've written a new one. It should work quite fine. I tested it with some movies, but it's still a beta, so use it carefully :-)



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non modifica/corregge il titolo se diverso da quello presente sul db, se la descrizione c'è già (magari presa da un altro script o inserita a mano)  non la sostituisce . Cosi gli altri campi.

Per il titolo all'inizio credevo fosse meglio che l'utente a decidesse il titolo esatto quindi lo script non scarica il titolo dal sito. Però ora credo sia meglio scaricarlo. Provvederò.
Per gli altri campi devi configurare lo script nelle impostazioni come tutti gli altri. Per ogni campo ci sono 3 opzioni:
-quadratino vuoto: il campo non viene aggiornato
-quadratino pieno: il campo viene aggiornato solo se vuoto
-spunta: il campo viene sempre aggiornato

O ho qualche problema io o non salva l'URL della scheda nella chiamata URL
The script don't save the URL

Cmq complimenti..bello scriptino 

Non capisco...intendi dire che non registra come informazione il campo URL o che lo script si blocca quando entra nella scheda del film.
Nel primo caso no, non lo fa...non mi è mai piaciuto l'URL nelle mie schede dei film e non l'ho fatto :-p ma se volete lo metto.
Nel secondo caso spiegami meglio il problema e vedrò di risolverlo. Magari posta anche il Log.

Uhm I'm not sure but... PVD takes only strings from the web, not database linkings and relationships, dont'it?
If so PVD should recognize same person and linkin it to same informations.
If not I need some suggestions because I use my own script. It works very well and i would keep using it. Should I tell the program when two names are the same person with my script?

Hi everybody  
I noticed PVD doesn't have a script for retrieving information from MyMovies.it which is a great movie database.
Since I'm italian and I want my movie and people informations in italian, and I really dont' like the existing plug-in for FilmUP.it because there aren't enough data, I've made two scripts.  
They work fine in general but they have some bugs I'm working on.
For example sometimes, if there isn't a poster or a photo aviable they go into loop  
Due to a bad organization of the data in MyMovies.it often the awards aren't registered very well, expecially the name of the winner/nominated.
However I let you try my scripts while waitin for bug fixes.
Enjoy and make suggestions please  

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